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Blood, Sweat and Earth

The Struggle for Control over the World's Diamonds Throughout History

By: Tijl Vanneste

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Hardcover | 1 February 2022

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432 Pages

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Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical exposé of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, and the monopolisation of uncut diamonds, and how little this has changed over time. It describes the use of forced labour and political oppression by Indian sultans, the Portuguese in Brazil, and South African industrialists, as well as the hoarding of diamonds to maintain high prices, from the English East India Company to De Beers.

While recent discoveries of diamond deposits in Siberia, Canada and Australia have brought an end to monopolisation, the book shows that advances in the production of synthetic diamonds have not yet been able to eradicate the exploitation caused by the world’s unquenchable thirst for sparkle.

About the Author

Tijl Vanneste is a researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. He is author of Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants (2011).

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