The Diamond Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Diamond Empire write by K'wan. This book was released on 2017-10-10. The Diamond Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diamonds and Pearl each try to claw their way to the top of the New York street scene, and back to each other.
The Diamond Empire
The Diamond Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Diamond Empire write by . This book was released on 2008. The Diamond Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Empire of Diamonds
Empire of Diamonds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of Diamonds write by Adrienne Munich. This book was released on 2020-05-19. Empire of Diamonds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, placed into Queen Victoria’s outstretched hands. This act inaugurated what author Adrienne Munich recognizes in her engaging new book as the empire of diamonds. Diamonds were a symbol of political power—only for the very rich and influential. But, in a development that also reflected the British Empire’s prosperity, the idea of owning a diamond came to be marketed to the middle class. In all kinds of writings, diamonds began to take on an affordable romance. Considering many of the era’s most iconic voices—from Dickens and Tennyson to Kipling and Stevenson—as well as grand entertainments such as The Moonstone, King Solomon’s Mines, and the tales of Sherlock Holmes, Munich explores diamonds as fetishes that seem to contain a living spirit exerting powerful effects, and shows how they scintillated the literary and cultural imagination. Based on close textual attention and rare archival material, and drawing on ideas from material culture, fashion theory, economic criticism, and fetishism, Empire of Diamonds interprets the various meanings of diamonds, revealing a trajectory including Indian celebrity-named diamonds reserved for Asian princes, such as the Great Mogul and the Hope Diamond, their adoption by British royal and aristocratic families, and their discovery in South Africa, the mining of which devastated the area even as it opened the gem up to the middle classes. The story Munich tells eventually finds its way to America, as power and influence cross the Atlantic, bringing diamonds to a wide consumer culture.
Diamonds and Pearl
Diamonds and Pearl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diamonds and Pearl write by K'wan. This book was released on 2016-10-11. Diamonds and Pearl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From # 1 Essence best-selling Crime Novelist K'Wan comes a tale of forbidden love, high stakes murder and the robbery gone bad that set it all in motion, Diamonds and Pearl. They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone. A child born of privilege to a drug baron and reputed killer known in the streets as Big Stone. Although the flashy, fast-paced nature of the streets calls to Pearl, she’s been brought up to look but not touch. But when a young hustler named Diamonds crawls up from the swamps of Louisiana and sets up shop in New York City, everything Pearl was taught flies out the window. Raised in the wild and schooled on the mean streets of New Orleans, Diamonds is no stranger to hard times and is willing to do whatever it takes to stay above the poverty line, including kill. When a robbery turned mass murder goes wrong, Diamonds is forced to flee New Orleans and lands in New York where he meets Pearl, and for the first time finds something he craves more than wealth and power...love. As the stakes get higher, Diamonds has to push away his past if he’s to grab hold of his future—but by doing so, will he show Pearl that all that glitters isn’t gold?
Glitter & Greed
Glitter & Greed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glitter & Greed write by Janine Farrell-Robert. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Glitter & Greed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rare, romantic, and forever: The diamond industry depends on these myths to reap billions of dollars of profit. This sensational investigation explodes such fallacies and reveals how multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns create the impression of rarity and romance. It reveals a very secret and unromantic world, one that is dominated and controlled by a handful of mighty corporations. With Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie The Blood Diamond making more people than ever aware of the seamy side of the diamond trade, Janine Roberts’ explosive exposé, taking us through seven decades of intrigue and manipulation, is the right book at the right time.
