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Auteur(s) : Lane, Kris Eugene (1967-....)
Titre(s) : Colour of paradise [Texte imprimé] : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires / Kris Lane
Publication : New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University Press, 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv, 280 p.) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; Sacred origins ; Conquistadors ; Emerald City ; Empires and inquisitors
; Globetrotters ; Emeralds and the Shahs ; Tax dodgers and smugglers ; Twilight
of imperials emeralds ; Conclusion ; Postscript: From British adventurers to today's
Esmeralderos ; Note on weights and measures ; Appendices: Production, appraisal
and Brazil's fabled emerald range.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was, as it remains for all Muslims,
the color of Paradise, reserved for the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. Tapping
a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading networks
that funneled emeralds from backland South America to populous Asian capitals between
the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Lane reveals the bloody conquest wars
and forced labor regimes that accompanied their production. It is a story of trade,
but also of transformations, how members of profoundly different societies at opposite
ends of the globe assigned value to a few thousand pounds of imperfectly shiny green
rocks
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Color of paradise
Sujet(s) : Émeraudes -- Colonies espagnoles -- Amérique -- Commerce
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300161311 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 030016131X (cloth) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43638770k
Notice n° :
FRBNF43638770
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