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Potosi - The Silver City That Changed the World (Hardcover)
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Potosi - The Silver City That Changed the World (Hardcover)
Series: California World History Library, 27
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"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosi
as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."-New York
Review of BooksIn 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on
a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the
world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico, or "Rich
Hill," and the Imperial Villa of Potosi instant legends, famous
from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half
of the world's silver for a century, and even in decline, it
remained the single richest source on Earth. Potosi is the first
interpretive history of the fabled mining city's rise and fall.
From Potosi's startling emergence in the sixteenth century to its
collapse in the nineteenth, Kris Lane tells the story of global
economic transformation and the environmental and social impact of
rampant colonial exploitation. Lane's invigorating narrative offers
rare details of this thriving city and its promise of prosperity. A
new world-native workers, market women, African slaves, and other
ordinary residents living alongside elite merchants, refinery
owners, wealthy widows, and crown officials-emerges in lively,
riveting stories from the original sources. An engrossing depiction
of excess and devastation, Potosi reveals the relentless human
tradition in boom times and bust.
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