Potosí in the Global Silver Age (16th—19th Centuries)

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-- Provided By Publisher.