Spice up your life!

As the colder weather approaches you may be thinking of spicier foods, we're thinking about books and government reports on spices and the spice trade within the Commonwealth. The Library collections include many reports and other publications on specific crops and commodities. To get you into a warmer mood here's a selection on spices to whet your appetite:

Zanzibar. Committee Appointed to Discuss the Rationalization of the Clove Industry.
Report / (chairman: G.D. Kirsopp).
Zanzibar, 1929.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 ZAN

Troup, Robert Scott, 1874-1939.
Report on clove cultivation in the Zanzibar Protectorate.
Zanzibar : Govt. Printer, 1932.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] SB307 C6 TRO

Kirsopp, G. D. (George Dougal), 1888-
Report of a mission appointed to investigate the clove trade in India and Burma, Ceylon, British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies / by G.D. Kirsopp and C.A. Bartlett.
London : Published on behalf of the Government of Zanzibar by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1933.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 KIR fol

Grenada. Inquiry Into the Nutmeg Industry of Grenada.
Report / (Chairman: D.E. Jackson).
St. George's : G.P., 1951.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 GRE fol

Zanzibar.
Report of the Clove Mission to India, Jan. 6th - 20th. 1958.
Zanzibar, 1958.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 ZAN

Ly-Tio-Fane, Madeleine.
Mauritius and the spice trade : the odyssey of Pierre Poivre / [documents] Edited by Madeleine Ly-Tio-Fane.
Port Louis, Mauritius : Esclapon, 1958.
[Mauritius. Archives Dept.] Publication ; no.4.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 LYT

Bartlett, C. A.
Clove growers association commentary.
Zanzibar : Zanzibar Nationalist Party, 1959.
Microfiche
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr M841

Zanzibar clove industry : statement of Government policy and report / by R. A Crofts.
[Zanzibar] : Zanzibar Protectorate, [1959]
Contents: Zanzibar Protectorate. Legislative Council. Statement by Government on the development of the clove industry.--Crofts, R. A. Report on the Zanzibar clove industry.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 ZAN

Bastin, John Sturgus, 1927-
The changing balance of the early Southeast Asian pepper trade
Kuala Lumpur : Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1960.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 BAS

Saw Huat Guan.
The production and potential of spices in West Malaysia with special reference to pepper, clove and nutmeg.
Kuala Lumpur : Malaya University, Faculty of Agriculture, 1971.
Microfiche 3 cards.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr MF163

Grenada. Commission of Enquiry Into the Affairs of the Grenada Co-operative Nutmeg Association.
Report / (chairman: E.R. Ward).
St. George's : G.P., 1971.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 GRE fol

Mayers, J. M.
The nutmeg industry of Grenada
Kingston, Jamaica : Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, c1974.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 MAY fol

Moore, M. P.
The state and the cinnamon industry in Sri Lanka
Colombo : Agrarian Research & Training Institute, 1978.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 MOO fol

Sheriff, Abdul.
Slaves, spices, & ivory in Zanzibar : integration of an East African commercial empire into the world economy, 1770-1873
London : J. Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1987.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DT447 SHE

Nandakumar, T.
The global spice trade and the Uruguay round agreements
Geneva, Switzerland :, London : International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO, Commonwealth Secretariat, 1996.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 NAN

Brizan, George I.
The nutmeg industry, Grenada's black gold
Grenada? : s.n., 1979?]
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 BRI

Brizan, George I.
Black gold revisited, 22 years later 2001
Grenada : The Author? : St George's Government Printery, 2003.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 BRI

Douglas, Claude J.
The Battle for Grenada's black gold
St. Andrew, Grenada : Maryzoon Press, c2004.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 DOU