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Cover illustration: Baroque Pearl Boat Hatpin. Circa 1500. © Museum of London

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Warsh, Molly A., author. | Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, publisher.
Title: American baroque : pearls and the nature of empire, 1492–1700 / Molly A. Warsh.
Description: Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017042775| ISBN 9781469638973 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469638980 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Pearl industry and trade—Caribbean Area—History—16th century. | Pearl industry and trade—Caribbean Area—History—17th century. | Spain—Colonies—History—16th century. | Spain—Colonies—History—17th century. | Pearls—Political aspects—History.

Classification: LCC HD9678.P42 C278 2018 | DDC 338.3/7140972909031—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017042775

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