Mines of silver and gold in the Americas /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA :
Variorum,
1997.
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| Series: | Expanding world ;
v. 19. |
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Table of Contents:
- Wangara, Akan, and Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Ivor Wilks
- Aboriginal metallurgy and metalworking in Spanish America: a brief overview / Robert C. West
- Early silver mining in New Spain, 1531-1555 / Robert C. West
- Technological change in Potosí: the silver boom of the 1570's / Peter Bakewell
- Bartolomé de Medina: the patio process of the sixteenth century silver crisis / Alan Probert
- Forced and free labour in late colonial Potosí / Enrique Tandeter
- Notes on the Mexican silver mining industry in the 1590's / Peter Bakewell
- Wages, ore sharing, and peasant agriculture: labour in Oruro's silver mines, 1607-1720 / Ann Zulawski
- Long-term silver mining trends in Spanish America: a comparative analysis of Peru and Mexico / Richard L. Garner
- Mexican mining industry in the eighteenth century / John H. Coatsworth
- Silver production in the viceroyalty of Peru, 1776-1824 / John Fisher
- Mexican silver mining in the eighteenth century: the revival of Zacatecas / D.A. Brading
- Colonial Brazil: the gold cycle, c. 1690-1750 / A.J.R. Russell-Wood.