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Mining Language : Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World

Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain's northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building upon works that have narrated this global hi...

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Autor principal: Bigelow, Allison Margaret (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: Recreating the Archive -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Meaning of Metals -- GOLD -- 1. Gathering Indigenous Knowledges -- 2. Visual Languages of Space and Place -- 3. Seasons of Gold -- IRON -- 4. Iron, Indios, and Iberian Science in Dialogue -- 5. Early Modern Dialogues and Colonial Knowledges -- COPPER -- 6. Narrative Circuits of New World Copper -- 7. Literary Forms, Imperial Projections, and the Limits of Possibility in Copper Colonies -- SILVER 
505 0 |a 8. Amalgamating Knowledge, Translating Empire -- 9. Color and Casta in the Andean Silver Industry -- 10. The Colonial Science of Like and Unlike -- Hacia una conclusión: Comparing Metals, Materials, and Ideas across Archives -- Appendix 1. Chapters in d'Orta, Clusius, Fragoso, and Briganti -- Appendix 2. Mining Terminology in Barba, García de Llanos, González Holguín, Bertonio, Montagu, Lange, Hautin de Villars, and Lenglet du Fresnoy -- Appendix 3. Official Weights and Measures -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z 
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