Sky Blue Stone : the turquoise trade in world history / Arash Khazeni.

By:

Khazeni, Arash

Material type: Text

TextSeries: California world history library ; 20.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520958357
0520958357
1306714672
9781306714679
0520279077
9780520279070
0520282558
9780520282551

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sky blue stone.DDC classification:

553.8

LOC classification:

QE392

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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.

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.

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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.