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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

… consumers' conception of and desire for diamond jewelry. It argues that knowledge about the conditions of production in colonial spaces and supply to the metropole increased diamond appreciation and, ultimately, consumption of diamond jewelry by white, middling- and upper-class Britons. Though …

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