• 血、汗、地:钻石竞争的世界历史
  • Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World’s Diamonds Throughout History
  • 作者:Tijl Vanneste
  • 出版社代理人:Reaktion Books(英国)
  • 出版时间:2021年9月
  • 页数:432页包括96张插图
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内容介绍


本书严苛的探讨了钻石产业,主要深入调查工人及自然环境的剥削以及未加工金刚石的垄断买卖。这长久的历史以来,这些现象没有太大的改变,也更没有改善。作者在书中叙述了人们如何使用强制性劳役以及政治上的压制,从印度的苏丹到巴西的葡萄牙人以及南非的工业主义者,都能见到这现象。而从历史长久的英国东印度公司到De Beers钻石公司,他们如何大量的囤积钻石,这样才能够提高钻石的价位这种行为,都在书中一一被暴露。


近期在西伯利亚、加拿大以及澳大利亚被发现的钻石矿床虽然结束了垄断买卖的现象,这本书更提到人造钻石尚未有办法完全根除人类对于钻石那无法抑制的饥渴,以及这份渴望所带来的剥削。


关于作者:

Tijl Vanneste是里斯本的Universidade Nova的葡萄牙国际关系机构的研究院。他是Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants (2011)的作者。


好评:

‘Diamonds are a global commodity with a rich but violent history. Tijl Vanneste is an ideal guide to this history, combining the knowledge of a specialist with an eye for poignant details. He tells the whole story of diamonds, ranging across five centuries and five continents, and showing that the history of trade is also the history of race, gender, labour and geopolitics. This is a sweeping and provocative history, told with one eye on the present.’ – Michael Bycroft,  Assistant Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick and co-editor of Gems in the Early Modern World


‘A fascinating and extremely well-researched study of diamonds through the ages, from myths to monopolies. It is a long-awaited enquiry into the part these gems have played in the changing trade patterns over the passing centuries, mirroring the rise of colonialism and trading companies, and the increasing impact of ethical and environmental concerns in recent decades. Tijl Vanneste has done an excellent job of presenting his wide-ranging research in such a readable manner.’ – Jack Ogden, author of Diamonds: An Early History of the King of Gems