Barragán, Rossana
(ed.)
Zagalsky, Paula C.
(ed.)
Editorial: Brill
Colección: Studies in Global Social History ; 49/3
Colección: Studies in the Social History of the Global South ; 49/3
Número de páginas: 500 págs.
Fecha de edición: 09-03-2023
EAN: 9789004528673
ISBN: 978-90-04-52867-3
Precio (sin IVA): 174,90 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 181,90 €
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. Eleven authors from different countries present their most recent research based on years of archival research, providing the readers with cutting-edge scholarship.