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Sky Blue Stone : the turquoise trade in world history /
This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along thi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | California world history library ;
20. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along this trail unfolds the story of turquoise--a phosphate of aluminum and copper formed in rocks below the surface of the earth--and its discovery and export as a global commodity. In the material culture and imperial regalia of early modern Islamic tributary empires moving from the steppe to the sown, tur. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520958357 0520958357 1306714672 9781306714679 0520279077 9780520279070 0520282558 9780520282551 |