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Sugar and the Indian Ocean World: Trade Consumption Eighteenth-Century Persian Gulf
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Sugar and the Indian Ocean World: Trade Consumption Eighteenth-Century Persian Gulf
Current price: $115.00
Barnes and Noble
Sugar and the Indian Ocean World: Trade Consumption Eighteenth-Century Persian Gulf
Current price: $115.00
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The study of sugar has, until now, focused mainly on its significant growth in European markets from the mid-17th century and, more recently, parallel developments in East Asia. In this book, Daito how the sugar trade also developed in, and became important to, the Indian Ocean World.
Studying how the consumption of sugar wavered after the brutal overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722, this book shows how the Dutch East India Company and the trading network responded to political upheavals in the region and, consequently, the changing trading conditions. Arguing that sugar continued to be imported and consumed despite these political disturbances,
proves this was not a period of economic stagnation for the region, and shows how sugar became an important intersection between socio-cultural practices and the Indian Ocean economy.