TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,Kris E.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Colour of paradise: the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires 
AV  - TN997.E5 L36 2010eb
U1  - 553.8/609 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Haven [Conn.]
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Emeralds
KW  - Spain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - History
KW  - Colombia
KW  - Inquisition
KW  - Portugal
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10579322
ER  -