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Blood, sweat and earth: the struggle for control over the world's diamonds throughout history / Tijl Vanneste.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vanneste, Tijl, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diamond industry and trade--History.
- Diamond industry and trade.
- Diamond industry and trade--Corrupt practices.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Asian Diamonds: The Discovery of a Luxury Commodity, 50 CE-1785 p. 23
- 2 Slavery and Monopolies: Diamonds in Colonial Brazil, 1720-1821 p. 79
- 3 The Rollercoaster towards Industrial Modernity, 1785-1884 p. 119
- 4 Building a Worldwide Empire: The Century of De Beers, 1884-1990 p. 169
- 5 The Enduring Attraction of Alluvial Mining, 1884-2018 p. 238
- 6 Mining in the Western World: The Twenty-first-century Collapse of the World De Beers Created p. 276.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-422) and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781789144369
- 1789144361
- Publisher Number:
- 40030786156
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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