Alum, More Precious than Gold The Amazing Influence and Trade of Alum Across the Ages

Alum, More Precious than Gold The Amazing Influence and Trade of Alum Across the Ages

Never heard of alum? You¿re not alone. Yet, for centuries, alum was vital to the production of coloured cloth. Alum was needed to fix dyes and colours to the cloth. Without alum, the colours ran and faded. With alum, they shone and were fast. As a result, as the Italian scientist Vanoccio Biringucci put it in the 16th century......
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Never heard of alum? You¿re not alone. Yet, for centuries, alum was vital to the production of coloured cloth. Alum was needed to fix dyes and colours to the cloth. Without alum, the colours ran and faded. With alum, they shone and were fast. As a result, as the Italian scientist Vanoccio Biringucci put it in the 16th century, alum was as ¿essential to dyers as bread is to man¿. Corner the market in alum, and you could make a fortune. Manufactured from a rock called alunite that was mined in China, Egypt and Turkey, alum contributed to the fabulous wealth of the Chinese emperors, the Pharaohs, the Byzantines and the Ottomans. A prized commodity in international trade, alum funded the opulence of Genoa, Bruges and late Renaissance Rome. Henry VII cannily exploited it, but it nearly ruined Elizabeth I. But alum also allowed crooks to make debased coins and to adulterate bread, and was at the heart of one of the most spectacular bankruptcy scandals of the 18th century. And the Black Death
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Never heard of alum? You’re not alone. Yet, for centuries, alum was vital to the production of coloured cloth. Alum was needed to fix dyes and colours to the cloth. Without alum, the colours ran and faded. With alum, they shone and were fast. As a result, as the Italian scientist Vanoccio Biringucci put it in the 16th century, alum was as ‘essential to dyers as bread is to man’. Corner the market in alum, and you could make a fortune. Manufactured from a rock called alunite that was mined in China, Egypt and Turkey, alum contributed to the fabulous wealth of the Chinese emperors, the Pharaohs, the Byzantines and the Ottomans. A prized commodity in international trade, alum funded the opulence of Genoa, Bruges and late Renaissance Rome. Henry VII cannily exploited it, but it nearly ruined Elizabeth I. But alum also allowed crooks to make debased coins and to adulterate bread, and was at the heart of one of the most spectacular bankruptcy scandals of the 18th century. And the Black Death used the shipping routes of the alum trade to spread through Europe. In this fascinating and eminently readable book, Sydney Thorne has picked out quirky and exciting stories of alum that range across the centuries and across the world, shedding new light on topics ranging from the slave trade to female entrepreneurs while re-discovering a fully-fledged industrial complex on the Yorkshire that was thriving two hundred years before the industrial revolution.

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Oppdag kraften i alum med *“Alum, More Precious than Gold”*

Har du hørt om alum? Du er ikke alene! I århundrer har dette fantastiske mineralet vært avgjørende i produksjonen av fargede tekstiler. Uten alum forble fargene bleke og falmet, men med alum strålte de i all sin prakt. Som den italienske vitenskapsmannen Vanoccio Biringucci uttalte det på 1500-tallet: Alum var like viktig for fargere som brød er for mennesket.

Alum: En uvurderlig ressurs gjennom historien

Produsert fra bergarten alunitt og utvunnet i land som Kina, Egypt og Tykrkia, har alum vært en hjørnestein i internasjonal handel. Denne ettertraktede råvaren la grunnlaget for formuen til både kinesiske keisere, faraoer, bysantinske herskere og osmanske sultaner. Den berømte handelen med alum finansierte praktfulle byer som Genoa, Bruges og sen renessanse Roma.

De motstridende historiene om alum i *“Alum, More Precious than Gold”*

Men ikke alt er rosenrødt. Sjekk dette: Alum ble også brukt til svindel med forfalskede mynter og til å forfalske brød. Slikt førte til spektakulære konkursklandre i det 18. århundre. Den tragiske svartedauden benyttet seg av alumhandelens skipsruter for å spre sykdommen over hele Europa. Sydney Thorne, forfatteren av dette fabelaktige verket, graver dypt inn i alumens historiens uvanlige og spennende beretninger.

Hvorfor *“Alum, More Precious than Gold”* er et must-read

  • Fascinerende historier om handelsruter og deres påvirkning på økonomien.
  • Et dypdykk i kvinnelige entreprenører og slaveri.
  • En oppdagelse av en industriell kompleksitet i Yorkshire, som blomstret lenge før den industrielle revolusjon.

Så hvis du er interessert i å forstå hvordan alum har formet samfunn og økonomi, da er denne boken helt klart for deg. Den gir et helt nytt perspektiv på et stoff du kanskje aldri har tenkt på før!

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