Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control Over the World's Diamonds Throughout History by Vanneste, Tijl

Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control Over the World's Diamonds Throughout History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789144352)

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Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control Over the World's Diamonds Throughout History by Vanneste, Tijl

Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control Over the World's Diamonds Throughout History

$42.00
Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control Over the World's Diamonds Throughout History by Vanneste, Tijl

Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control Over the World's Diamonds Throughout History

$42.00
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of our enduring passion for diamonds--and the exploitative industry that fuels it.

Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical expos of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, the monopolization of uncut diamonds, and how little this has changed over time. It describes the use of forced labor and political oppression by Indian sultans, Portuguese colonizers in Brazil, and Western industrialists in many parts of Africa--as well as the hoarding of diamonds to maintain high prices, from the English East India Company to De Beers. While recent discoveries of diamond deposits in Siberia, Canada, and Australia have brought an end to monopolization, the book shows that advances in the production of synthetic diamonds have not yet been able to eradicate the exploitation caused by the world's unquenchable thirst for sparkle.

Author: Tijl Vanneste
ISBN-10: 1789144353
ISBN-13: 9781789144352
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 12/21/2021
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.60d
By Tijl Vanneste
By Tijl Vanneste
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Tijl Vanneste is a researcher in the Portuguese Institute of International Relations at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. He is the author of Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants.

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