A History of Mining in Latin America: From the Colonial Era to the Present (Diálogos Series)

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For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish The united states’s greatest silver producer and possibly 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 symbolized fabulous wealth and implausible 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 kinds of coercion to safe workers. In many cases the environment also suffered devastating harm.

All of this occurred within 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 The united states and what were its social and ecological consequences. Brown’s focal point at the legendary mines at Potosí and comparison of its operations to those of other mines in Latin The united states is a well-written and accessible study that may be the first to span the colonial era to the present.

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