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"Potosí (today Bolivia) was the major supplier for the Spanish Empire and for the world and still nowadays, 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...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in Global Social History,
volume 49 Studies in the social history of the global south ; volume 3 |
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| Summary: |
"Potosí (today Bolivia) was the major supplier for the Spanish Empire and for the world and still nowadays, 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, in the fourth section. The main focus is on the set-up of a complex infrastructure at the site, its major changes, 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 Bonialian Thérèse Bouysse-Cassagne, Kris Lane, Tristan Platt, Renée Raphael, Masaki Sato, Heidi Scott, and Paula C. Zagalsky"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 489 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004528673 9004528679 |
| Index Number: | HD9537 |
| CLC: | F477.961-09 |
| Call Number: | F477.961-09/P864 |