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Imperial splendor: Diamonds, commodity chains, and consumer culture in nineteenth-century Britain

Kinsey, Danielle C.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2011

This dissertation examines the meaning of diamonds in imperial Britain in the nineteenth century and how Britain's involvement in diamond commodity chains across the century informed metropolitan consumers' conception of and desire for diamond jewelry. It argues that knowledge about the conditions …

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