Mining language : racial thinking, indigenous knowledge, and colonial metallurgy in the early modern Iberian world / Allison Margaret Bigelow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bigelow, Allison Margaret, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mineral industries--Latin America--Language--History.

Mineral industries.

Mines and mineral resources--Latin America--History.

Mines and mineral resources.

Language and culture--Latin America--History.

Language and culture.

Indians--Language--Influence on Spanish.

Indians.

Indians--Language--Influence on Portuguese.

African languages--Latin America--Influence on Spanish.

African languages.

African languages--Latin America--Influence on Portuguese.

African languages--Influence on Spanish.

History.

Latin America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]

Summary:

Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain's northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building upon works that have narrated this global history of American mining in economic and labor terms, Mining language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials. This language-centric focus enables Allison Bigelow to document the crucial intellectual contributions Indigenous and African miners made to the very engine of European colonialism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: GOLD

1. Gathering Indigenous Knowledges

2. Visual Languages of Space and Place

3. Seasons of Gold

IRON

4. Iron, Indios, and Iberian Science in Dialogue

5. Early Modern Dialogues and Colonial Knowledges

COPPER

6. Narrative Circuits of New World Copper

7. Literary Forms, Imperial Projections, and the Limits of Possibility in Copper Colonies

SILVER

8. Amalgamating Knowledge, Translating Empire

9. Color and Casta in the Andean Silver Industry

10. The Colonial Science of Like and Unlike

Hacia una conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781469654386

1469654385

OCLC:

1119760078

Publisher Number:

99993021273