...0 23 11 2023 It is well known that mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World. Historians and economic historians of slavery, labour, science have documented the variety of ways in which American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded...

... is to gold as white to black, arrayed respectively on the chrome spectrum and the spectrum of life and death. What is distinctive to silver moonlight, however, compared with golden sunlight, is that it shines with not with its own light but with light borrowed from the sun. gold luminosity materials moon...

...’) to careful ethnographic illustrations based on written and visual sources (Hans Burgkmair's large woodcut frieze, People of Africa and India, of 1508). These few years, in which the monstrance of Belém of 1506 (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon) was produced with the gold of Kilwa, also...

...This main section of the volume provides over 150 source materials from Portuguese and other European archives, many appearing in English translation for the first time. These documents cover local societies from the Eguafo] to other Akan peoples in Akyem (‘Axim’) to Nkrãn (‘Accra’) to Akan gold...

... of philosophy and science as well as historiography. The chapter draws attention to three archaeological discoveries and the way their evidential value has been assessed: a gold mask, discovered in 1876 in the first of the ‘shaft graves’ at Mycenae, the so-called tomb of Agamemnon; an artefact discovered...

...Euro-Africans along the Gold Coast figure as a somewhat obscure minority in contemporary European literature. Perhaps this can be attributed to the kinship system of the coastal Akan that dominated the structure of Gold Coast society and accounted for the integration of Euro...

.... It argues that the ideology of the gold standard led policy-makers to take actions that accentuated economic distress in the 1930s. May E R Vertzberger Yaacov Y I Kosovo Munich Powell Doctrine Stock Exchange USA Vietnam Wilson Doctrine Benham F C Beveridge W H Asia East Bretton Woods Gold...

...This book provides the most substantial and important source of material on the Portuguese empire and on Portugal's gold and slave trades with the Gold Coast of West Africa. The Portuguese produced the earliest records for regions in West Africa, none for important than the Gold Coast and its...