Potosí : the silver city that changed the world / Kris Lane.
Potosí : the silver city that changed the world / Kris Lane.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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G 2019/6000
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English
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Physical content
xviii, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Bonanza -- Age of wind, age of iron -- The viceroy's great machine -- An improbable global city -- Secret judgments of God -- Decadence and rebirth -- From revival to revolution -- Summing up -- Epilogue : Potosí since independence -- Appendix : voices.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
[2019]
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"In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potosí instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world's silver for a century, an...
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Potosí : the silver city that changed the world / Kris Lane.
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The California world history library ; 27
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
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©2019
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G 2019/6000
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74VKawMbJG3g
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ISBN
9780520280847 hardcover alkaline paper
0520280849 hardcover alkaline paper
9780520280854 paperback alkaline paper
0520280857 paperback alkaline paper
DDC
984.14
MMS ID
991024282007502626
