RT Journal Article
T1 Caribbean ginger and Atlantic trade, 1570-1648
A1 Aram, Bethany
K1 Corsairs and privateers
K1 Early modern Caribbean
K1 English empire
K1 Ginger
K1 Inter-imperial trade
K1 Spanish empire
AB Ginger smuggled out of Asia flourished on the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The oriental root, whose migration and transplantation Spanish sovereigns sought to stimulate, enjoyed more of a market in England and the Low Countries than in Castile. A differentiated demand for ginger in northern and southern Europe, documented in archival and literary sources, reflected the principles of humoral medicine and influenced trade. Ginger’s poor adaptation to the Spanish fleet system, exacerbated by armed conflicts, including the revolt of the Low Countries (1568–1648) and the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), fomented rather than inhibited a continuum of prohibited practices from privateering to contraband, with English and Dutch merchant-privateers in the ‘Spanish’ Caribbean interested in ginger, sugar, and hides, among other commodities.
PB Journal of Global History
YR 2015
FD 2015-11-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/21968
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/21968
LA en
NO Journal of Global History , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , November 2015 , pp. 410 - 430 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022815000200
NO Proyectos de investigaciónJunta de Andalucía P09-HUM 5330, ‘New Atlantic products, science, war, economy and consumption in the Old Regime’, directed by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Ramón y Cajal programme, RYC-2012- 10358.
NO Departamento de Geografía, Historia y Filosofía
DS RIO
RD Apr 23, 2026