UID:
almafu_9959056323702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (368 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786612627132
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9781789201178
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1789201179
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9781282627130
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1282627139
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9781845458003
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1845458001
Inhalt:
The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social scientists, and international relations experts. Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world's main strongholds of diamond production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The history of the diamond-cutting i
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Diamonds and War; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Global and National: War, Diamonds, and the Colonial State; Chapter 1. Palestine as an Alternative; Chapter 2. The Making of a Monopoly; Chapter 3. Diamond Work and Zionist Time; Chapter 4. The Challenge and Its Constraints; Chapter 5. Labor Unrest; Chapter 6. Liberation and Liberalization; Chapter 7. Crisis and Restructuring; Chapter 8. Reproducing the Pact; Appendices; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781845456337
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1845456335
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9781789201178
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