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Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History (California World History Library)
Arash Khazeni
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"An elegant book that modestly hides the author’s extraordinary linguistic and cultural knowledge . . . sets a high bar."
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.<...
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