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oapen-20.500.12657-251692021-11-10T07:54:26Z Diamonds and War De Vries, David History British Empire Mandate Palestine Israel business history luxury goods labor history commodities Middle East bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history::HBJF1 Middle Eastern history Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world’s main strongholds of diamond production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a long-standing Jewish presence, is discussed as a social history embedded in the international political economy of its times; the genesis of the industry in Palestine is placed on a broad continuum within the geographic and economic dislocations of Dutch, Belgian, and German diamond-cutting centers. In providing a micro-historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the story of the diamond industry in Mandate Palestine proposes a more nuanced picture of the uncritical approach to the strict boundaries of ethnic-based occupational communities. 2019-05-07 23:55 2020-03-20 03:00:29 2020-04-01T10:29:10Z 2020-04-01T10:29:10Z 2010-04-01 book 1004919 OCN: 1135846183 9781789201178 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25169 eng application/pdf n/a 1004919.pdf Berghahn Books 10.2307/j.ctt9m0w9v 102878 10.2307/j.ctt9m0w9v 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781789201178 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 102878 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world’s main strongholds of diamond production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a long-standing Jewish presence, is discussed as a social history embedded in the international political economy of its times; the genesis of the industry in Palestine is placed on a broad continuum within the geographic and economic dislocations of Dutch, Belgian, and German diamond-cutting centers. In providing a micro-historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the story of the diamond industry in Mandate Palestine proposes a more nuanced picture of the uncritical approach to the strict boundaries of ethnic-based occupational communities.
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