The Resource Colour of paradise : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires, Kris Lane
Colour of paradise : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires, Kris Lane
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The item Colour of paradise : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires, Kris Lane represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Contents
-
- Sacred origins
- Conquistadors
- Emerald city
- Empires and inquisitors
- Globetrotters
- Emeralds of the shahs
- Tax dodgers and smugglers
- Twilight of imperial emeralds
- Postscript: from British adventurers to today's Esmeralderos
- Isbn
- 9780300164701
- Label
- Colour of paradise : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires
- Title
- Colour of paradise
- Title remainder
- the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires
- Statement of responsibility
- Kris Lane
- Title variation
- Color of paradise
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lane, Kris E.
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Emeralds
- Emeralds
- Inquisition
- Inquisition
- HISTORY
- Emeralds
- Inquisition
- Colombia
- Portugal
- Spain
- Label
- Colour of paradise : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires, Kris Lane
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Sacred origins -- Conquistadors -- Emerald city -- Empires and inquisitors -- Globetrotters -- Emeralds of the shahs -- Tax dodgers and smugglers -- Twilight of imperial emeralds -- Postscript: from British adventurers to today's Esmeralderos
- Control code
- ocn808346482
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780300164701
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1145kr
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)808346482
- Label
- Colour of paradise : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires, Kris Lane
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Sacred origins -- Conquistadors -- Emerald city -- Empires and inquisitors -- Globetrotters -- Emeralds of the shahs -- Tax dodgers and smugglers -- Twilight of imperial emeralds -- Postscript: from British adventurers to today's Esmeralderos
- Control code
- ocn808346482
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780300164701
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1145kr
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)808346482
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