Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes

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On the root of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the results of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven tale of what colonial exploitation of indigenous peoples and resources left in its wake. This is a socio-ecological history that explores the toxic interrelationships between mercury and silver production, urban environments, and the individuals who lived and worked in them. Nicholas A. Robins tells the tale of ways native peoples within the region were conscripted into the noxious ranks of foot soldiers of proto-globalism, and the way their fate, and that in their communities, was once―and still is―chained to it.

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