The matter of empire : metaphysics and mining in colonial Peru /

The Matter of Empire examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid the foundations for the material exploitation of the Andean region between 1520 and 1640. Centered on Potosí, Bolivia, Orlando Bentancor's original study ties the colonizers' at...

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Main Author: Bentancor, Orlando (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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505 0 |a Introduction: Imperium, Metaphysical Instrumentalism, and Potosi Mining -- Grounding the Empire : Francisco de Vitoria's Political Physics -- The Impasses of Instrumentalism : Revisiting the Polemics between Sepulveda and Las Casas -- Mastering Nature : Jose de Acosta's Pragmatic Instrumentalism -- From Imperial Reason to Instrumental Reason : The Ideology of the Circle of Toledo -- The Exhaustion of Natural Subordination : Solórzano Pereira and the Demise of Metaphysical Instrumentalism. 
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651 0 |a Potosí (Bolivia : Department)  |x Colonization  |x History  |y 16th century. 
651 0 |a Potosí (Bolivia : Department)  |x Colonization  |x History  |y 17th century. 
650 0 |a Indians of South America  |x Colonization  |z Bolivia  |z Potosí (Department)  |x History. 
650 0 |a Mines and mineral resources  |x Political aspects  |z Bolivia  |z Potosí (Department)  |x History. 
650 0 |a Environmental degradation  |x Political aspects  |z Bolivia  |z Potosí (Department)  |x History. 
650 0 |a Metaphysics  |x Political aspects  |z Bolivia  |z Potosí (Department)  |x History. 
650 0 |a Instrumentalism (Philosophy)  |x Political aspects  |z Bolivia  |z Potosí (Department)  |x History. 
650 0 |a Imperialism  |x Philosophy  |x History. 
651 0 |a Spain  |x Colonies  |z America  |x History. 
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