Nicholas Nugent with The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade

Join Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, in partnership with Brandeis University Press and American Ancestors for a wide-ranging discussion about a fascinating period of global history as experts from both sides of the Atlantic discuss maritime commerce--the innovation, benefits, and damages of the spice trade.
Learn how the drive of sea captains, worldwide consumers’ taste, and technical innovations-improvements in ship design, compasses, and mapping- enabled navigation across unprecedented distances, from such embarkation points as Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon to the exotic ports of Malacca, Goa, Bombay, where they tracked down elusive spices. Such travels impacted art, literature, and science worldwide; and they were often disastrous for local populations, who were frequently exploited as slave plantation labor. This wide-ranging account of a fascinating period of global history uses original maps and contemporary artists’ views to tell the story of how each port developed individually; while also encouraging us to consider contrasting points of view of the benefits and the damages of the maritime spice trade.
Nicholas Nugent has 40 years’ experience researching and reporting for BBC World Service. He is the author of numerous books, including the biography, Rajiv Gandhi Son of a Dynasty(BBC Books) and Vietnam: The Second Revolution. Over the years Nugent has spent his spare time building a valuable archive of original maps.
William M. Fowler, Jr. is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Northeastern University in Boston, and also the former Director of the Massachusetts Historical Society, President of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and President of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
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