The History of Diamond Production and the Diamond Trade
Author : Godehard Lenzen
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Diamond mines and mining
ISBN : 9780214650840
Author : Godehard Lenzen
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Diamond mines and mining
ISBN : 9780214650840
Author : Godehard Lenzen
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1966
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Lillian E. Forman
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Diamond industry and trade
ISBN : 9781616135201
This title gives readers a deeper look at the diamond trade and its surrounding conflicts. Readers will learn the history of the diamond trade, including its social, political, and economic effects. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-follow text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Viewpoints is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Author : Tijl Vanneste
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1789144353
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 exposé 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 : P. A. L. Greenhalgh
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Diamond industry and trade
ISBN : 9780719017636
Study of the history of the diamond mining industry and trade in West Africa - reviews the world diamond industry; examines the role of European foreign enterprise incl. Land concessions, labour supply, wages, labour relations, profitability and productivity; comments on African indigenization of digging concessions and operations, growth of the African diamond industry and the production factors; discusses the impact of government policies, (taxation, public ownership), and diamond marketing in Western Europe and within the region. Bibliography, graph, maps, statistical tables.
Author : Ian Smillie
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0857289799
Africa's diamond wars took four million lives. They destroyed the lives of millions more and they crippled the economies of Angola, the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The biggest UN peacekeeping forces in the world-in Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Congo and C te d'Ivoire―are the legacy of 'conflict' or 'blood diamonds'. 'Blood on the Stone' tells the story of how diamonds came to be so dangerous. It describes the history of the great diamond cartel and how it gradually lost control of the precious mineral, as country after country descended into anarchy and wars fuelled by diamonds. The book describes the diamond pipeline, from war-torn Africa to the glittering showrooms of Paris, London and New York. It describes the campaign that began in 1999 and which eventually forced the industry and more than 50 governments to create a global certification system known as the Kimberley Process, aimed at wringing blood diamonds out of the retail trade. This gripping account concludes with a sobering assessment of the certification system, which soon became hostage to political chicanery, mismanagement and vested interests. Too important to fail, the Kimberley Process has been hailed as a regulatory model for Africa's extractive minerals. Behind the scenes, however, it runs the risk of becoming an ineffectual talk shop, standing aside as criminals re-infest the diamond world.
Author : Roman Grynberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137537612
The Global Diamond Industry: Economics and Development brings together a collection of papers covering various aspects of the diamond industry including economics, law, history, sociology and development across two volumes.
Author : Jack Ogden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300215665
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- PREFACE -- 1 The Diamond -- 2 The Ancient World -- 3 Early Persia and the East -- 4 Medieval Europe -- 5 The Dawn of Diamond Cutting in Europe -- 6 The Fifteenth-Century Technical Revolution -- 7 Renaissance Table and Point Cuts -- 8 Renaissance Multifaceted Cuts -- 9 The Early Brilliant Cut -- 10 Diamond Cutting in London -- 11 The Value and Assessment of Diamonds -- 12 The Indian Diamond Mines -- 13 The Diamond Trade in India -- 14 Diamond Cutting in India and the East -- 15 The Eclipse of Indian Diamonds -- Epilogue -- APPENDIX: A 1675 Description of the Diamond Mines -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Author : Tijl Vanneste
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1789144361
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 exposé 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 : James Remington McCarthy
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258492328
A Comprehensive Look Into The Precious Stone Known As The Diamond. The Book Examines Famous Diamonds Of The World, The Mining Of Diamonds, Diamonds Used For Fashion, Industrial Diamonds, And How To Buy Diamonds. Included Are Photographs, Bibliography, And Index.