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The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social scientists, and international relations experts. Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of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 i

Diamond cutting industry --- Diamond industry and trade --- Jewelry trade --- Nonmetallic minerals industry --- Gem cutting industry --- History --- British Empire --- Mandate Palestine --- Israel --- business history --- luxury goods --- labor history --- commodities --- Middle East