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.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

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.

Indigenous peoples--America--Languages--Influence on Spanish.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--America--Languages--Influence on Portuguese.

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

African languages.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History Culture, 2021.

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 a book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890859440

9798890859457

9781469654409

1469654407

OCLC:

1151400458