Global Gold

Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
The interdisciplinary essays in Global Gold—by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art history—explore gold’s monetary, economic, and aesthetic roles within the crucible of a unique historical period of transition, conquest, and the exploitation of natural and human resources.
Gold as a material and gold as a value becomes a truly universal equivalent in the early modern world as global economies begin to emerge after 1492. The essays in Global Gold present both the aesthetic and economic conditions that immediately precede the emergence of this global commerce as well as the immediate and various consequences of those interactions. Through interdisciplinary essays by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art history, the differences and commonalities of gold’s monetary, economic, and aesthetic roles are explored within the crucible of a unique historical period of transition, conquest, and the exploitation of natural and human resources.

Contributor: Thomas B. F. Cummins (Edited by), Abigail Krasner Balbale (Contributions by), Suzanne Preston Blier (Contributions by), Chiara Crisciani (Contributions by), Anne Dunlop (Contributions by), Cecilia Frosinini (Contributions by), Kris Lane (Contributions by), Yukio Lippit (Contributions by), Carlo Taviani (Contributions by)

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