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Kris Lane Potosi (Hardback) California World History Library
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- Book Title
- Potosi : the Silver City That Changed the World
- Publication Name
- Potosi
- Title
- Potosi
- Subtitle
- The Silver City That Changed the World
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0520280849
- EAN
- 9780520280847
- ISBN
- 9780520280847
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History
- Release Date
- 28/05/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 22.4 Oz
- Series
- California World History Library
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Topic
- Mining, Economic Conditions, World, Latin America / General
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potos as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."-- The New York Review of Books 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 Potos instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world's silver for a century, and even in decline, it remained the single richest source on earth. Potos is the first interpretive history of the fabled mining city's rise and fall. It tells the story of global economic transformation and the environmental and social impact of rampant colonial exploitation from Potos 's startling emergence in the 16th century to its collapse in the 19th. Throughout, Kris Lane's invigorating narrative offers rare details of this thriving city and its promise of prosperity. A new world of native workers, market women, African slaves, and other ordinary residents who lived alongside the elite merchants, refinery owners, wealthy widows, and crown officials, emerge in lively, riveting stories from the original sources. An engrossing depiction of excess and devastation, Potos reveals the relentless human tradition in boom times and bust.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520280849
ISBN-13
9780520280847
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038293512
Product Key Features
Book Title
Potosi : the Silver City That Changed the World
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Mining, Economic Conditions, World, Latin America / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
27
Lc Classification Number
Hd9537.B63p674 2018
Reviews
...a valuable contribution to the study and understanding of Andean civilization and history. . . . [that] includes detailed sources and an extensive bibliography, and especially an appendix that collates the observations of selected early chroniclers of Potosí. And although Lane describes himself as a newcomer and interloper to the history of Potosí, he has delivered a marvelous work that brings together a library of writing on this fascinating topic and all under one cover., Lane achieves that rare balance, an imminently readable and enjoyable history with a strong narrative overview and archival specifics. In the process, Lane refocuses our conceptual map; in his view Potosí is not 'peripheral' in the early modern or colonial world but rather is a 'center' in a world history context and an American, largely Indigenous, city. His approach creates a balanced history of the city's residents: Indigenous, African, Mestizo, Spanish, male, and female., Lane deserves credit not only for assembling so much old and new information into a convenient form, but also for reminding us that cities have a life of their own, regardless of their national or transnational importance. . . . As he writes in his preface, the aim of his book is to 'balance the local and the global by treating Potosi-city and mountain, mines and countryside-as an example of early modern global urbanism and extraction in action.' In this he succeeds admirably., Lane builds his analysis from fragments: notarial records and other archival documents that are both amazingly rich and rather ill-suited to crafting a narrative driven by particular individuals or families. . . . by dividing each chapter into a handful of very short sections (some no more than a page long), he gives readers a sense of how historical research feels and leaves it to us to piece a fuller story together., A skilled raconteur, Lane mines colonial chronicles written by potosinos for anecdotes to bring the city to life. . . . What makes Lane's book important is its focus on Potosi, the city, whose importance, he shows, was greater than just the mines and refining mills., Covering the period from the discovery of silver until 1825, he uses personal stories gleaned from original sources to produce a rich and lively account that shows how elite merchants, officials and mine owners rubbed shoulders with African slaves, native residents and migrants. . . . As this beautifully written book shows, the costs and benefits of globalisation are not confined to their historical moment., No volume in any language has offered a panoramic vision of [Potosí] history. A book was waiting to be written, and finally it comes to us in Lane's admirable and engrossing account., Rollicking is not a term normally applied to books from an academic press, and it is perhaps an exaggeration, but only a slight one, to use it here. Lane includes technical, mineralogical, chemical, historical and other background, but his focus is on the stories, la comédie humaine , that played out in Potosí during the two and three-quarter centuries between the discovery of silver and Simón Bolívar's declaration of independence delivered from the Cerro Rico's peak.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Timeline Introduction 1 * Bonanza 2 * Age of Wind, Age of Iron 3 * The Viceroy's Great Machine 4 * An Improbable Global City 5 * Secret Judgments of God 6 * Decadence and Rebirth 7 * From Revival to Revolution 8 * Summing Up Epilogue: Potosí since Independence Appendix: Voices Glossary Notes Bibliographical Essay Select Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2018-048203
Dewey Decimal
984/.14
Series
California World History Library
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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