Research Catalog

Title

Potosí in the global silver age (16th-19th centuries) / edited by Rossana Barragán R. and Paula C. Zagalsky.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

xxii, 489 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, facsimiles; 25 cm.

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 ; volume 49
• Studies in the social history of the global south ; volume 3

Uniform Title

Studies in global social history ; 49.

Subject

• Silver mines and mining > Bolivia > Potosí > History
• Silver mines and mining
• Bolivia > Potosí

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 23-2360

ISBN

• 9789004528673
• 9004528679

LCCN

2022043627

OCLC

1344292709

Title

Potosí in the global silver age (16th-19th centuries) / edited by Rossana Barragán R. and Paula C. Zagalsky.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in Global Social History ; volume 49

Studies in the social history of the global south ; volume 3

Studies in global social history ; 49.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Barragán R., Rossana (Barragán Romano), editor.

Zagalsky, Paula C., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Potosí in the global silver age (16th-19th centuries) Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 9789004528680 (DLC) 2022043628

Research Call Number

JFE 23-2360