[PDF.95sf] A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

[PDF.mm17] A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

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 | #213433 in eBooks |  2008-10-08 |  2009-10-06 | File type: PDF

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Read the book, skip the kindle edition.|By Literary Mom|Beware Kindle Readers! This e-book, for which you will pay $3 more than the print edition and second day shipping for a Prime member, has none of the illustrations referred to in the text. The notes are unwieldy to operate and the complete lack of part of the book (yes, plates and figures referred to and marked by the aut|From Publishers Weekly|"Elusive, expensive and invested with powerful symbolism, red cloth became the prize possession of the wealthy and well-born," Greenfield writes in her intricate, fully researched and stylishly written history of Europe's centuries-long cl

A Perfect Red recounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world's most precious commodities. Treasured by the ancient Mexicans, cochineal was sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors in 1519. Shipped to Europe, the dye created a sensation, producing the brightest, strongest red the world had ever seen. Soon Spain's cochineal monopoly was worth a fortune.
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