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from Holland. Herrings, tar, fish gelatin and lead from Sweden. Cocoa
from Maracaibo, Martinique, Suriname; sugar from Martinique, Santo
Domingo, Havana and Lisbon. Then aloe from Barbados, balsam from
Peru, cinnamon from Lisbon, beaver from Canada, wood and buffalo
skins from Brazil, vanilla from Santo Domingo and Guatemala, indigo
from Florida and Jamaica. Trade mechanisms were also made more
complex by the fact that similar goods with different prices and
characteristics also came in from the Mediterranean and the East. For
example, coffee also came to Trieste from Alexandria and Moka, beaver
from Russia, paper from Venice, cheese from Italy and Hungary, white
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lead from Genoa and Venice and alum from Istria .
Then, in the course of the 19th century, the advent of steam
navigation modified this picture and also profoundly changed the
Trieste-Atlantic relationship.

44 Ivi, pp. 349-356.

Mediterranea - ricerche storiche - Anno XV - Dicembre 2018 n.44
ISSN 1824-3010 (stampa) ISSN 1828-230X (online)