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Ottoman Guerre de Course and the Indian Ocean Spice Trade: The Career of Sefer Reis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2010

Giancarlo Casale
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The middle decades of the sixteenth century witnessed one of the most dramatic and unexpected transformations in the history of long-distance intercontinental commerce: the revival of the transit spice trade through the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, following a period of nearly fifty years during which it had been redirected almost in its entirety through the Portuguese-controlled route around the Cape of Good Hope. And yet, while modern scholars have been aware of this sea change in global commerce for generations, the reasons behind it still remain a subject of debate. Numerous explanations have been proposed, ranging from changes in the international demand for spices to corruption within the Portuguese administration. Until now, however, none has taken into account what may be the most important factor of all: the rising power of Ottoman corsairs, whose predatory raids against Portuguese targets were instrumental in subverting the Estado da India's system for controlling trade in the western Indian Ocean.

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Itinerario , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 59 - 79
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2008

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