Colour of paradise [electronic resource] : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires / Kris Lane.
By: Lane, Kris E.
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BookPublisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010Description: xiv, 280 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).Other title: Color of paradise.Subject(s): Emeralds -- Spain -- Colonies -- History | Emeralds -- Colombia -- History | Inquisition -- Spain | Inquisition -- PortugalGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 553.8/609 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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