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Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World Volume 27

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kris LaneSeries:California World History Library #27Publish date:2019-05-28Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520280847ISBN-10:520280849UPC:9780520280847Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Latin AmericaBook Topic:South AmericaSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCCV88BGJ8
"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potos as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."--New York Review of Books

In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico, or "Rich Hill," and the Imperial Villa of Potos instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world's silver for a century, and even in decline, it remained the single richest source on Earth.

Potos is the first interpretive history of the fabled mining city's rise and fall. From Potos 's startling emergence in the sixteenth century to its collapse in the nineteenth, Kris Lane tells the story of global economic transformation and the environmental and social impact of rampant colonial exploitation. Lane's invigorating narrative offers rare details of this thriving city and its promise of prosperity. A new world--native workers, market women, African slaves, and other ordinary residents living alongside elite merchants, refinery owners, wealthy widows, and crown officials--emerges in lively, riveting stories from the original sources. An engrossing depiction of excess and devastation, Potos reveals the relentless human tradition in boom times and bust.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520280847ISBN-10:520280849UPC:9780520280847Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Latin AmericaBook Topic:South AmericaSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCCV88BGJ8
Kris Lane holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University. He is author of Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires, Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition, and Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750.

Publisher: University of California Press

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