A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting Snyder Saskia Coenen
A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting Snyder Saskia Coenen Following diamonds from African mines to the necklines of high society women, this international history shows why…
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A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting Snyder Saskia Coenen
Following diamonds from African mines to the necklines of high society women, this international history shows why Jews were central to the transatlantic gem trade and its growth into a global industry.During the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of diggers, prospectors, merchants, and dealers extracted and shipped over 50 million carats of diamonds from South Africa to London. At each stage of the diamond's route through the British empire and beyond-from Cape Town to London, from Amsterdam to New York City-carbon gems were primarily mined, processed, appraised, and sold by Jews.In A Brilliant Commodity, historian Saskia Coenen Snyder traces how once-peripheral Jewish populations became the central architects of The primary supplier to the world, South Africa's diamond fields became one of the formative sites of modern capitalist production.