Buch, Englisch, Band 49/3, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1068 g
Reihe: Studies in Global Social History / Studies in the Social History of the Global South
Buch, Englisch, Band 49/3, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1068 g
Reihe: Studies in Global Social History / Studies in the Social History of the Global South
ISBN: 978-90-04-52867-3
Verlag: Brill
Potosí (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 Potosí 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.
