Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World’s Diamonds Throughout History - Couverture rigide

Vanneste, Tijl

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1789144353 ISBN 13 : 9781789144352

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2021

Synopsis

'A fascinating and extremely well-researched study of diamonds through the ages' - Jack Ogden, author of Diamonds: An Early History of the King of Gems

'This is a sweeping and provocative history, told with one eye on the present.' - Michael Bycroft, co-editor of Gems in the Early Modern World

Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical exposé of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, and the monopolization of uncut diamonds, and how little this has changed over time. It describes the use of forced labour and political oppression by Indian sultans, the Portuguese in Brazil, and South African industrialists, as well as the hoarding of diamonds to maintain high prices, from the English East India Company to De Beers.
While recent discoveries of diamond deposits in Siberia, Canada and Australia have brought an end to monopolization, the book shows that advances in the production of synthetic diamonds have not yet been able to eradicate the exploitation caused by the worlds unquenchable thirst for sparkle.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tijl Vanneste is a researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. He is author of Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants (2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789144353
• ISBN 13: 9781789144352
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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