| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
California World History Library ; Volume 20
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California world history library ; 20.
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| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction : The turquoise ring of the Emperor Jahangir -- 1. The colored earth -- 2. Turquoise, trade, and empire in early modern Eurasia -- 3. The turquoise of Islam -- 4. Stone from the East -- 5. The other side of the world -- Epilogue : Indian stone. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Turquoise -- History.
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Turquoise. |
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History. |
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Mineral industries -- History.
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Mineral industries. |
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Mines and mineral resources -- History.
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Mines and mineral resources. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Khazeni, Arash. Sky blue stone. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] 9780520279070 (DLC) 2013041585 (OCoLC)862041485 |
| ISBN |
9780520958357 (electronic book) |
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0520958357 (electronic book) |
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1306714672 |
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9781306714679 |
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0520279077 |
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9780520279070 |
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9780520279070 |
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