Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Kinsey, Danielle C.
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Description
Title
Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author(s)
Kinsey, Danielle C.
Issue Date
2010
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Burton, Antoinette M.
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, Modern
Language
eng
Abstract
This work is based on a wide range of British newspapers and jewelry trade periodicals, particularly Jeweller and Metalworker, archival work done in the Birmingham City Archives on the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association, the papers of Joseph Chamberlain (University of Birmingham) and Cecil Rhodes (Rhodes House, Oxford), the records of the East India Company (British Library), travelogues of Britons in Brazil, and records on aesthetics and natural history consulted at the Natural History Museum Archives and the Archive of Art and Design at the V&A Museum (London).
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