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Epigraph
Contents
Preface
Part I. Want: Desire, Delusion, and the Scarcity Effect
1. Keep the Change: The Beads That Bought Manhattan
2. Precedents Are Forever: The First Diamond Engagement Ring
3. The Color of Money: The Emerald Parrot, and the Making and Unmaking of the Spanish Empire
Part II. Take: Obsessions, Possessions, and the Mechanics of War
4. The Importance of Being Famous: The Necklace That Started the French Revolution
5. Hello, Sailor: How Sibling Rivalry and a Really Big Pearl Shaped the Fate of Nations
6. The Old Shell Game: The Golden Eggs That Funded the Soviet Start-up
Part III. Have: Industry, Innovation, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel
7. The Boss’s String: Pearl Culture, Cultured Pearls, and Japan’s Race to Modernity
8. Timing Is Everything: World War I and the First Wristwatch
Afterword: Valuables
Acknowledgments
Photographic Insert
About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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