Global Gold: Aesthetics, Material Desires, Econ. Sakali, Marks**

Harvard University Press

Global GoldAesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World\nAuthor(s): Thomas B. F. Cummins, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Suzanne Preston Blier, Chiara Crisciani, Anne Dunlop, Cecilia Frosinini, Kris Lane, Yukio Lippit, Carlo Taviani\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674296176, 978-0674296176\nSynopsis\nGold as a material and gold as a value becomes a truly universal equivalent in the early modern world as global economies begin to emerge after 1492. The essays in Global Gold present both the aesthetic and economic conditions that immediately precede the emergence of this global commerce as well as the immediate and various consequences of those interactions. Through interdisciplinary essays by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art history, the differences and commonalities of golds monetary, economic, and aesthetic roles are explored with.