Abstract
Potosí (today in Bolivia) was the major supplier of silver 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[you could add here “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.
The main focus is on the establishment of a complex infrastructure at the site, its major changes[you could add here “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.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Leiden/Boston |
| Publisher | Brill, Leiden Boston |
| Number of pages | 489 |
| Volume | 3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789004528680 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789004528673 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | Studies in Global Social History |
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Keywords
- Silver mines
- Potosi
- Latin America
- Labor
- Global history