Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

392 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010.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).U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD