Empire Of Diamonds
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Empire Of Diamonds
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Author : Adrienne Munich
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Empire Of Diamonds written by Adrienne Munich and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, placed into Queen Victoria’s outstretched hands. This act inaugurated what author Adrienne Munich recognizes in her engaging new book as the empire of diamonds. Diamonds were a symbol of political power—only for the very rich and influential. But, in a development that also reflected the British Empire’s prosperity, the idea of owning a diamond came to be marketed to the middle class. In all kinds of writings, diamonds began to take on an affordable romance. Considering many of the era’s most iconic voices—from Dickens and Tennyson to Kipling and Stevenson—as well as grand entertainments such as The Moonstone, King Solomon’s Mines, and the tales of Sherlock Holmes, Munich explores diamonds as fetishes that seem to contain a living spirit exerting powerful effects, and shows how they scintillated the literary and cultural imagination. Based on close textual attention and rare archival material, and drawing on ideas from material culture, fashion theory, economic criticism, and fetishism, Empire of Diamonds interprets the various meanings of diamonds, revealing a trajectory including Indian celebrity-named diamonds reserved for Asian princes, such as the Great Mogul and the Hope Diamond, their adoption by British royal and aristocratic families, and their discovery in South Africa, the mining of which devastated the area even as it opened the gem up to the middle classes. The story Munich tells eventually finds its way to America, as power and influence cross the Atlantic, bringing diamonds to a wide consumer culture.
The Diamond Empire
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Author : K'wan
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2017-10-10
The Diamond Empire written by K'wan and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Fiction categories.
#1 Essence bestselling author K’Wan returns with The Diamond Empire, the explosive, hard-hitting follow-up novel to the street love story Diamonds and Pearl. It’s about to be an all-out war. While an ambitious rival has taken over Diamonds’s crew, Diamonds lies in wait in exile, carefully planning his next move to comeback and reclaim his position as king of the streets of New York for good. But when an unexpected enemy from the past one-ups Diamonds and beats him at his own game, Diamonds needs to dig deep into his bag of tricks—and make an unlikely alliance—in order to climb back to the top. After opening her heart to Diamonds and then having him disappear, Pearl lives her days in a very dark place. But when her father’s empire is toppled and a gaping power vacuum needs to be filled, Pearl is drawn into the very life her father so desperately wanted to shield her from. Pearl needs to fight tooth and nail to become queen of her father’s kingdom, as Diamonds claws his way back to Pearl.
The Diamond Empire
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Diamond Empire written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Diamond industry and trade categories.
The Last Empire
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Author : Stefan Kanfer
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1995-04-30
The Last Empire written by Stefan Kanfer and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-30 with Business & Economics categories.
"Timely corporate history--as exciting and poignant as any good tale of derring-do against great odds by all-too-flawed giants. " - Kirkus Reviews With a scholar's precision and a novelist's eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines - from the nineteenth century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beer's humble South African farm into an exotic klondike, to the Oppenheimers' shadow empire that has achieved umatched global reach.
The Last Empire
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Author : Stefan Kanfer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-06-01
The Last Empire written by Stefan Kanfer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-06-01 with History categories.
Chronicles the 19th-century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beer's humble South African farmstead into an exotic Klondike. With a scholar's precision & a novelist's eye, the author recounts the rise of wild frontier towns like New Rush (now Kimberley) & Johannesburg, & their roisterous mix of plutocrats & prostitutes, gamblers & politicians. Shows the roots of the racial crisis in the developing land: the misery of black miners & the fortunes of white prospectors; the defeat of the African emperor Lobengula, & the rise of Cecil Rhodes, his legendary adversary, who ruled the Cape Colony & De Beers. Illustrated.
Aids Opium Diamonds And Empire
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Author : Nancy Turner Banks
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2010-05
Aids Opium Diamonds And Empire written by Nancy Turner Banks and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with Business & Economics categories.
It is a mistake to think that wars only concern armies involved in active engagement. Nothing is farther from the truth. The real forces of evil wage a financial war. The dark princes of debt finance have gained leverage over every important social, economic, and political institution-including the health care delivery system. In AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire, author Nancy Turner Banks draws the connections between free market strategies, the destruction of national sovereignty by the process of globalization, and AIDS as one of the health consequences of a neo-Darwinian philosophy. Through meticulous research, Banks found a medicalpharmaceutical- industrial complex that was taken over one hundred years ago by the titans of financial capitalism. Their aim was to create profit, not to conquer disease. This book of social history points to a cauldron of historical events that contributed to the HIV/AIDS crisis. AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire tells the dramatic story of a financial ideology that is damaging to everything that it means to be human. It is the story of profits over people. In the end, it is the story of hope and how we can regain our sanity and our health in a world gone mad.
Glitter Greed
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Author : Janine Farrell-Robert
language : en
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Release Date : 2007-04-01
Glitter Greed written by Janine Farrell-Robert and has been published by Red Wheel Weiser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Rare, romantic, and forever: The diamond industry depends on these myths to reap billions of dollars of profit. This sensational investigation explodes such fallacies and reveals how multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns create the impression of rarity and romance. It reveals a very secret and unromantic world, one that is dominated and controlled by a handful of mighty corporations. With Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie The Blood Diamond making more people than ever aware of the seamy side of the diamond trade, Janine Roberts’ explosive exposé, taking us through seven decades of intrigue and manipulation, is the right book at the right time.
Glitter Greed
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Author : Janine Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Disinformation Company
Release Date : 2003
Glitter Greed written by Janine Roberts and has been published by Disinformation Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
Journalist and human rights activist Janine Roberts was funded for many years by a coalition of US and European churches to work on international human rights frontiers. This work led her to De Beers and its diamond cartel affiliates - after they clashed with an Australian Aboriginal community. She has now been researching and writing on De Beers and the diamond trade for over twenty years, during which time she has made several films, including The Diamond Empire, a feature length documentary shot in six continents, made for the BBC, Australia's ABC and WGBH (Frontline). Although this film was televised and critically acclaimed in the US and Canada, under pressure from De Beers it was severely edited by the BBC for broadcast in the UK and was completely suppressed in some other territories, including Southern Africa and Australia. Bertelsmann AG's British, Australian and Canadian Doubleday imprints then commissioned, paid for and advertised a major work by Ms. Roberts on diamonds - only to drop it at the very last moment, citing the "likelihood of litigation" by "notable and powerful businessmen and politicians." This book reveals everything - and more - that the BBC did not have the guts to broadcast and that Doubleday was scared to print.
The Rise And Fall Of Diamonds
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Author : Edward Jay Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 1982
The Rise And Fall Of Diamonds written by Edward Jay Epstein and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Business & Economics categories.
The Story Of Diamonds
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Author : Arthur Cecil Austin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The Story Of Diamonds written by Arthur Cecil Austin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Diamonds categories.