Colour of paradise the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires /
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 Amer...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2010.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| 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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| Physical Description: | xiv, 280 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |