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A History of Mining in Latin America: From the Colonial Era to the Present

A History of Mining in Latin America: From the Colonial Era to the Present

Brown, Kendall

Paperback

Series: Diálogos

Real EstateGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 0826351069
ISBN13: 9780826351067
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: Mar 16 2012
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolized fabulous wealth and unbelievable suffering. New World bullion stimulated the formation of the first world economy but at the same time it had profound consequences for labor, as mine operators and refiners resorted to extreme forms of coercion to secure workers. In many cases the environment also suffered devastating harm.

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