Global Trade in the Early Medieval World: The Movement of Wealth, Spice and Medicine, 700–1100

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Toslima Khatun

Global Trade in the Early Medieval World

The Movement of Wealth, Spice and Medicine, 700–1100

Toslima Khatun

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English

Routledge
18 February 2025

Regional studies; General & world history; International trade; Economic history

Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes, and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Carolingian elites.

The study of the trade in perfumes and spices highlights the relationship between the South Asian subcontinent and the Caliphate. It is shown that the societies involved in this intercontinental maritime trade intermingled through the demand for goods and products which allowed for the transmission of ideas and learning. Crucially, the Eurasian end of these trading routes were tapping into pre- existing networks of trade as there is evidence that there were links of trade between East Asia and the near and Middle East as early as the seventh century B.H./ first century A.D. Thus, the book challenges the Eurocentric worldview which fails to take into account that the Europeans in the late medieval period came into a pre- existing trading network.

This book will be of interest to readers in economic history as well as the history of trade, globalisation, South Asia, the Middle East, and the Medieval world.

By: Toslima Khatun
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781032971001
ISBN 10: 1032971002
Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 18 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Toslima Khatun is a post- doctoral researcher and lecturer at King’s College London specialising in the politics around pandemics and public health. She has a dual discipline of History and Public Health Policy. She has a Masters in Medieval History and a PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies focusing on the legacies of globalisation and what that has meant for the known world. Her other works include Making Health Public, A Manifesto for a New Social Contract where she outlines how we need to learn from the past.