Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

This work is based on a wide range of British newspapers and jewelry trade periodicals, particularly Jeweller and Metalworker, archival work done in the Birmingham City Archives on the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association, the papers of Joseph Chamberlain (University of Birmingham) and Cecil Rhodes (Rhodes House, Oxford), the records of the East India Company (British Library), travelogues of Britons in Brazil, and records on aesthetics and natural history consulted at the Natural History Museum Archives and the Archive of Art and Design at the V&A Museum (London).

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Kinsey, Danielle C.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Burton, Antoinette M.

• History, Modern

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3455762

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84715