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Biographical note
R.A. Donkin, Ph.D. (1953) Durham, Litt.D. (1993) Cambridge, is Emeritus Reader in Historical Geography and Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He has published extensively in the field of historical geography, most recently Pearls and Pearl-fishing; Origins to the Age of Discoveries (American Philosophical Society, 1998).
Readership
Cultural historians and historical geographers. Students of ancient, classical and medieval societies, oriental history, early trade and exchange, and the history of materia medica.
Reviews
'...an extremely valuable account with an encyclopaedic character…it will become a standard reference work for many scholars and is likely to stimulate our appetite for more scholarly works of this type - "commodity studies" on "little things" which many "theory-driven" historians have tended to ignore during the last two decades.'
Roderich Ptak, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2000.
'...Donkin's book is very useful for those who are interested in historical medicine, incenses, and perfumery. It also deals with cross-cultural trade appropriately.'
Chén Kuo-Tung, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001.
'...this book is of very great interest, and will be essential reference material for anyone concerned with trade and cultural exchange in the ancient world.'
Claude Guillot, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2001.
Roderich Ptak, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2000.
'...Donkin's book is very useful for those who are interested in historical medicine, incenses, and perfumery. It also deals with cross-cultural trade appropriately.'
Chén Kuo-Tung, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001.
'...this book is of very great interest, and will be essential reference material for anyone concerned with trade and cultural exchange in the ancient world.'
Claude Guillot, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2001.
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