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Introduction : The global early Americas
Sex, death, and the sea : pearls in the early modern imagination
Pearls and a political ecology of empire, 1498-1541
"Even the black women wear strands of pearls" : assessing the worth of subjects and objects in a new era, 1540-1600
Making "a machine of pearls" in the seventeenth century : custom and innovation in Iberian pearl-fishing ventures
"Regardless of gender, class, color, or condition" : pearls in private possession around the Iberian imperial world
"A few more or less make no difference" : accounting for pearls in northern Europe in the seventeenth century
Conclusion : Rescuing "that tired, irregular pearl from such lengthy isolation."
Sex, death, and the sea : pearls in the early modern imagination
Pearls and a political ecology of empire, 1498-1541
"Even the black women wear strands of pearls" : assessing the worth of subjects and objects in a new era, 1540-1600
Making "a machine of pearls" in the seventeenth century : custom and innovation in Iberian pearl-fishing ventures
"Regardless of gender, class, color, or condition" : pearls in private possession around the Iberian imperial world
"A few more or less make no difference" : accounting for pearls in northern Europe in the seventeenth century
Conclusion : Rescuing "that tired, irregular pearl from such lengthy isolation."