Research Catalog

Title

Potosí in the global silver age (16th-19th centuries) [electronic resource] / edited by Rosana Barragán R. and Paula C. Zagalsky.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Details

Additional Authors

• Barragán R., Rossana (Barragán Romano)
• Zagalsky, Paula C.

Description

1 online resource (xxii, 489 pages) : color illustrations, maps.

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"--

Series Statement

• Studies in global social history, 2590-3144 ; Volume 49
• Studies in the social history of the global south; vol.3

Uniform Title

Potosí in the global silver age (16th-19th centuries : Online)

Subject

Silver mines and mining > Bolivia > Potosi > History

Note

• Includes index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

ISBN

9789004528680

LCCN

2022043627

OCLC

ssj0002799647

Title

Potosí in the global silver age (16th-19th centuries) [electronic resource] / edited by Rosana Barragán R. and Paula C. Zagalsky.

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Series

Studies in global social history, 2590-3144 ; Volume 49

Studies in the social history of the global south; vol.3

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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Added Author

Barragán R., Rossana (Barragán Romano)

Zagalsky, Paula C.