Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden Summary
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In "Stoned," jeweler-scientist Aja Raden reveals how eight precious gems shaped human history. Madonna raved, "Money, power, sexual politics, and jewelry - isn't this what makes the world go 'round?" Discover why Manhattan was bought with glass beads and diamonds aren't actually precious.
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When a Stone Holds More Power Than a Throne
A single necklace helped destroy the French monarchy. A pearl sparked England's transformation into a global empire. Diamonds-literally compressed carbon, no rarer than pencil lead-convinced generations they were essential symbols of eternal love. What if the glittering objects we've fought wars over, built empires around, and bankrupted ourselves to possess are valuable only because we've agreed they are? The story of jewelry isn't really about stones at all. It's about the extraordinary power of human desire to reshape reality itself, turning worthless rocks into instruments of revolution, symbols of divinity, and currency of empires. Throughout history, our obsession with shiny objects has launched invasions, toppled governments, and fundamentally altered the global balance of power-not because these objects possessed inherent magic, but because we believed they did.
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