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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
List of Abbreviations and Short Titles
Introduction. The Global Early Americas
Chapter 1. Sex, Death, and the Sea: Pearls in the Early Modern Imagination
Chapter 2. Pearls and a Political Ecology of Empire, 1498–1541
Chapter 3. “Even the Black Women Wear Strands of Pearls”: Assessing the Worth of Subjects and Objects in a New Era, 1540–1600
Chapter 4. Making “A Machine of Pearls” in the Seventeenth Century: Custom and Innovation in Iberian Pearl-Fishing Ventures
Chapter 5. “Regardless of Gender, Class, Color, and Condition”: Pearls in Private Possession around the Iberian Imperial World
Chapter 6. “A Few More or Less Make No Difference”: Accounting for Pearls in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century
Conclusion. Rescuing “That Tired Irregular Pearl from Such Lengthy Isolation”
Essay on Sources
Index
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