Colour of paradise [electronic resource] : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires / Kris Lane.
2010
TN997.E5 L36 2010eb
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Colour of paradise [electronic resource] : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires / Kris Lane.
Author
Lane, Kris E., 1967-
ISBN
9780300161311 (cloth alk. paper)
030016131X (cloth alk. paper)
9780300164701 (cl alk. paper)
9780300164701 (e-book)
030016131X (cloth alk. paper)
9780300164701 (cl alk. paper)
9780300164701 (e-book)
Publication Details
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 280 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
Call Number
TN997.E5 L36 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
553.8/609
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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