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Potosà in the Global Silver Age (16th—19th Centuries) (Hardcover)
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Potosà in the Global Silver Age (16th—19th Centuries) (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Global Social History / Studies in the Social History of the Global South, 49/3
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Potosà (today Bolivia) was the major supplier for the Spanish
Empire and for the world and still today boasts the world's
single-richest silver deposit. This book explores the political
economy of silver production and circulation illuminating a vital
chapter in the history of global capitalism. It travels through
geology, sacred spaces, and technical knowledge in the first
section; environmental history and labor in the second section;
silver flows, the heterogeneous world of mining producers, and
their agency in the third; and some of the local, regional, and
global impacts of Potosà mining in the fourth section. The main
focus is on the establishment of a complex infrastructure at the
site, its major changes over time, and the new human and
environmental landscape that emerged for the production of one of
the world´s major commodities: silver. Eleven authors from
different countries present their most recent research based on
years of archival research, providing the readers with cutting-edge
scholarship. Contributors are: Julio Aguilar, James Almeida,
Rossana Barragán Romano, Mariano A. Bonialian, Thérèse
Bouysse-Cassagne, Kris Lane, Tristan Platt, Renée Raphael, Masaki
Sato, Heidi V. Scott, and Paula C. Zagalsky.
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