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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,
2020.
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| Colección: | Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 history of American mining in economic and labor terms, Mining language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials. This language-centric focus enables Allison Bigelow to document the crucial intellectual contributions Indigenous and African miners made to the very engine of European colonialism"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (377 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1469654407 9781469654409 9781469654393 1469654393 |