Koh-i-Noor: Empire, Diamonds, and the Performance of British Material Culture

Kinsey, Danielle C.

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“…The former was the poster-child for the industrial age and the fuel that powered the future on display at the Exhibition. In contrast, as both contemporary observers and several later 1851: REMATERIALISING THE GREAT EXHIBITION scholars have remarked (particularly Kinsey 2009 andYoung 2007), the diamond came to be seen as premodern and 'primitive', foreign and even 'feminine': an undesirable and anachronistic substance when compared to the wonder stuff that was British coal. Reconsidering how such substances and objects came to be in the Palace, Louise Purbrick argues 'is to dislodge [them] from its taxonomies and hierarchies of temporary, stationary display' and to rematerialise them as 'matter for world history ' (2016, paras.…”

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A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events: From the Great Exhibition to London 2012

Gardner¹

2022

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A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events explores the traces of London’s most significant modern ‘mega events’. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe and their organisers self-consciously seek to leave a ‘legacy’ that will endure for decades or more. With London as his case study, Jonathan Gardner argues that these spectacles must be seen as long-lived and persistent, rather than simply a transient or short-term phenomena. Using a novel methodology drawn from the subfield of contemporary archaeology – the archaeology of the recent past and present-day – a broad range of comparative studies are used to explore the long-term history of each event. These include the contents and building materials of the Great Exhibition’s Crystal Palace and their extraordinary ‘afterlife’ at Sydenham, South London; how the Festival of Britain’s South Bank Exhibition employed displays of ancient history to construct a new post-war British identity; and how London 2012, as the latest of London’s mega events, dealt with competing visions of the past as archaeology, waste and ‘heritage’ in creating a vision of the future. This book offers significant new directions for the study of mega events in its comparison of how three mega events changed London over three centuries. Drawing on a broad range of theoretical and methodological frameworks and a rich array of sources, it demonstrates the great potential of contemporary archaeology for understanding contemporary urban phenomena.

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“…In this rich body of scholarship, surprisingly few attempts have been made to directly follow the materiality of the Exhibition and its building together (though see Purbrick 2016;Kinsey 2009; with newer scholarship also on the materials of the Sydenham Crystal Palace, e.g. Nichols and Turner 2017).…”

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A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events: From the Great Exhibition to London 2012

Gardner¹

2022

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“…46 In a study of the Koh-i-Noor, the infamous Indian diamond surrendered to Queen Victoria on the 250 th anniversary of the founding of the East India Company, Danielle C. Kinsey states that this particular jewel 'registered … as an emblem of a frivolous, feminized, and orientalized luxury commodity'; the diamond was often considered to epitomise 'old-fashioned plunder imperialism'. 47 'Victorian consumers', Kinsey claims, 'were in many ways hyperaware of where things came from and the networks of exploitation that were in place to deliver these goods'. 48 While the controversy surrounding the Koh-i-Noor was at its peak a few decades prior, 1897, the year of Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (and the publication of Stoker's novel) launched the Crown Jewels back to the forefront of the public consciousness, particularly when Victoria was offered 'the 245-carat Jubilee Diamond from South Africa' to celebrate the sixty years of her reign.…”

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Ruby Lips and Whitby Jet: Dracula's Language of Jewels

Dobson

2018

Gothic Studies

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“…Алмазы встречаются также в местах падения метеоритов [2]. На протяжении веков бриллианты считались дорогостоящим материалом для изготовления украшений, а самые редкие образцы служили символом власти и благородства [3]. Ситуация изменилась в ХХ веке, когда были разработаны методы производства синтетических алмазов.…”

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Структурные И Оптические Характеристики Синтетических Алмазов В Нано-, Микро- И Миллиметровом Масштабе

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Synthetic diamonds are the subject of research in many different implementations. Recognition of the properties of materials with dimensions near the nanometre scale is of great importance for essential science and multiple applications. Microdiamonds synthesised by the HPHT method and nanodiamonds made by detonation were evaluated using XRD, SEM, TEM and Raman spectroscopy. UV-VIS luminescence measurements were performed and compared with each other to assess the surface defects and grain size influence on their optical properties.

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Koh-i-Noor: Empire, Diamonds, and the Performance of British Material Culture

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events: From the Great Exhibition to London 2012

A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events: From the Great Exhibition to London 2012

Ruby Lips and Whitby Jet: Dracula's Language of Jewels

Структурные И Оптические Характеристики Синтетических Алмазов В Нано-, Микро- И Миллиметровом Масштабе

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