Global Gold: Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
By Thomas B. F. Cummins (Editor), Abigail Krasner Balbale (Contribution by), Suzanne Preston Blier (Contribution by), Chiara Crisciani (Contribution by), Anne Dunlop (Contribution by), Cecilia Frosinini (Contribution by), Kris Lane (Contribution by), Yukio Lippit (Contribution by), Carlo Taviani (Contribution by)
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By Thomas B. F. Cummins (Editor), Abigail Krasner Balbale (Contribution by), Suzanne Preston Blier (Contribution by), Chiara Crisciani (Contribution by), Anne Dunlop (Contribution by), Cecilia Frosinini (Contribution by), Kris Lane (Contribution by), Yukio Lippit (Contribution by), Carlo Taviani (Contribution by)
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Gold as a material and gold as a value becomes a truly universal equivalent in the early modern world as global economies begin to emerge after 1492. The essays in Global Gold present both the aesthetic and economic conditions that immediately precede the emergence of this global commerce as well as the immediate and various consequences of those interactions. Through interdisciplinary essays by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art history, the differences and ...






















