Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico, Zacatecas 1546-1700 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)

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An examination of silver mining and society in Colonial Mexico Within the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating upon Zacatecas, the centre of the principal silver-mining region. Within the first half of the book, the writer describes the invention of the mines, the establishment of the city, its role Within the northward advance of the Spanish occupation of Mexico, its administration, and the sources of its supplies of crucial food and materials. The rest of the book is devoted to an analysis of the mining industry of the Zacatecas district. The writer discusses techniques, labour and raw materials. He also provides statistics for silver production, suggesting reasons for their fluctuation, and explores sources of capital for the industry. In keeping with detailed study of archives in both Spain and Mexico, Dr Bakewell is in a position to provide an entirely new chronology for the improvement of Zacatecas and the Mexican maining industry as much as 1700.

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