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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,
2020.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
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