Nutmeg seems harmless. It's just a warm spice. But in the 1600s, people in Europe didn't see nutmeg in the same way, and instead, they were thinking about power & money. A handful of islands in ...

Today is Saturday, November 10. There are 51 days left in the year. Boy, we are really rolling back the clock on this one. On this date, 333 years ago, in 1674, peace was declared in the third ...

The Strait of Hormuz has always been crucial, even before the discovery of oil in West Asia. The Portuguese, the Dutch and ...

List of maps -- Introduction -- Prologue -- The Anglo-Dutch-American archipelago -- part 1. Anglo-Dutch-American early modernity. The first Industrial revolution ; A geography of invention, 1500-1600 ...