A History of Mining in Latin America

From the Colonial Era to the Present

Kendall W. Brown (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2012
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-5106-7 (ISBN)

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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 symbolised 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.

All of this occurred in the name of wealth for individual entrepreneurs, companies, and the ruling states. Yet the question remains of how much economic development mining managed to produce in Latin America and what were its social and ecological consequences. Brown's focus on the legendary mines at Potosí and comparison of its operations to those of other mines in Latin America is a well-written and accessible study that is the first to span the colonial era to the present.

Kendall W. Brown is professor of Latin American history at Brigham Young University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.3.2012
Reihe/Serie	Dialogos Series
Zusatzinfo	15 halftones, 3 maps, 3 graphs
Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 223 mm
Gewicht	425 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik ► Bergbau
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
ISBN-10	0-8263-5106-9 / 0826351069
ISBN-13	978-0-8263-5106-7 / 9780826351067
Zustand	Neuware