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Cloves: The Spice that Enriched Empires

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By Genie Yoo, Smarika Nawani, George Sarton, Roderich Ptak
| JSTOR Daily Verified
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. For most of human history, the humble clove, one of the most common spices in our kitchen cabinets, was one of the rarest in the world. Plucked from the tropical evergreen trees of the Myrtaceae family, these tiny, sundried buds from the clove plant Syzygium aromaticum were not only prized for their sweet and spicy flavors but also for their value in medicine and food preservation.
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Wars and wonders: the inter-island information networks of Georg Everhard Rumphius

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By Genie Yoo
| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Abstract How did one man living on an island come to acquire information about the rest of the vast archipelago? This article traces the inter-island information networks of Georg Everhard Rumphius (1627–1702), an employee of the Dutch East India Company, who was able to explore the natural world of the wider archipelago without ever leaving the Moluccan island of Ambon.
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