Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History Volume 20 by Khazeni, Arash
Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History Volume 20 by Khazeni, Arash

Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History Volume 20

This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin...
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Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History Volume 20 by Khazeni, Arash

Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History Volume 20

$595.38
Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History Volume 20 by Khazeni, Arash

Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History Volume 20

$595.38
Author: Arash Khazeni
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along this trail unfolds the story of turquoise--a phosphate of aluminum and copper formed in rocks below the surface of the earth--and its discovery and export as a global commodity.

In the material culture and imperial regalia of early modern Islamic tributary empires moving from the steppe to the sown, turquoise was a sacred stone and a potent symbol of power projected in vivid color displays. From the empires of Islamic Eurasia, the turquoise trade reached Europe, where the stone was collected as an exotic object from the East. The Eurasian trade lasted into the nineteenth century, when the oldest mines in Iran collapsed and lost Aztec mines in the Americas reopened, unearthing more accessible sources of the stone to rival the Persian blue.

Sky Blue Stone recounts the origins, trade, and circulation of a natural object in the context of the history of Islamic Eurasia and global encounters between empire and nature.

Author: Arash Khazeni
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 05/10/2014
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780520282551


Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2015 pg. 867

About the Author
Arash Khazeni is Assistant Professor of History at Pomona College and author of Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran.
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