Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of 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, 1498â#x80;#x93;1541 -- CHAPTER 3. â#x80;#x9C;Even the Black Women Wear Strands of Pearlsâ#x80;#x9D;: Assessing the Worth of Subjects and Objects in a New Era, 1540â#x80;#x93;1600 -- CHAPTER 4. Making â#x80;#x9C;A Machine of Pearlsâ#x80;#x9D; in the Seventeenth Century: Custom and Innovation in Iberian Pearl-Fishing Ventures -- CHAPTER 5. â#x80;#x9C;Regardless of Gender, Class, Color, and Conditionâ#x80;#x9D;: Pearls in Private Possession around the Iberian Imperial World -- CHAPTER 6. â#x80;#x9C;A Few More or Less Make No Differenceâ#x80;#x9D;: Accounting for Pearls in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century -- CONCLUSION: Rescuing â#x80;#x9C;That Tired Irregular Pearl from Such Lengthy Isolationâ#x80;#x9D; -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
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