Potosí in the Global Silver Age (16th-19th Centuries) / Rossana Barragán and Paula C. Zagalsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barragán R., Rossana (Barragán Romano), author.

Zagalsky, Paula C., author.

Series:

Studies in global social history ; Volume 49.

Studies in Global Social History Series ; Volume 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silver mines and mining--Bolivia Potosi´--History.

Silver mines and mining.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (511 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv, [2023]

Summary:

This book combines the political and economic history of silver flows all over the world, detailing the workers, entrepreneurs, and authorities of the Spanish Empire.

Contents:

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Maps, Figures, and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Glossary

Introduction: The Age of Silver

1 Silver Connections and Trans-imperial Involvement

1.1 Treasure Shipments, "Piracy" and Trade

1.2 The Silver Coveted: Bankers and Merchants

1.3 Smuggling and Merchants' Connivance

1.4 The Slave Trade

1.5 Vale un Potosí [To Be Worth a Potosí]: Labor in the Mountain

2 The Chapters

Annex

Bibliography

Part 1 Geology, Sacred Spaces, Political and Technical Knowledge

Chapter 1 Potosí Revisited: Toward a Pre-Hispanic Potosí

1 Introduction

2 The Great Silver Mountain

3 The Spanish "Discovery" of 1545

4 Mines of the Sun and Taboos

4.1 Wari Viracocha

5 The Miners of the Collasuyu and Their Divinities

5.1 The Island of the Sun

5.2 The Collas and the Mines

6 Potosí, God of the Cerro, the Incas, and the Tiwanaku Background

7 Felines

8 By Way of Conclusion

Primary Sources

Chapter 2 The Potosí Mita and the Geological Foundations of a Colonial Debate

2 Andean Histories and Political Geology

3 Potosí and the Politics of Geological Knowledge in Early Colonial Writings

4 Geological Discourse and the Eighteenth-Century Debate over Potosí's Mita

5 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Chapter 3 Reading along the Administrative Grain: Knowledge Production and the Investigation of Refining Improvements in Late Sixteenth-Century Potosí

2 Officials and Mineros in the Context of Ortiz de Zárate's Inspections

3 Speaking "Like a State" or as a Technical Expert?

4 Inscribing an Experimental Trial

5 Producing Eyewitness Testimony

6 Conclusions

Works cited.

Unpublished Primary Sources

Published Sources

Part 2 Environmental History and Labor

Chapter 4 Water for the Monarchy of the World: Mitayos and Maestros of Colonial Potosí Hydraulic Works

2 The Toledan Hydraulic Policies: Energy and Environmental Changes in Potosí

3 Indigenous Workers and the Mita for Hydraulic Labor

4 Maestros: Hydraulic Experts in Colonial Potosí

5 Final Comments

Chapter 5 The Market of Small Freedoms: Labor Negotiation in Seventeenth Century Potosí

2 Labor Organization in the Early Mint

3 The Market of Small Freedoms and Its Rise

4 Market Structures

5 The Market in Decline

Part 3 Flows, Heterogenous Producers and Agency

Chapter 6 The Silver of Potosí, 1580-1630: The Beating and Pumping of One of the Hearts of Early Globalization

1 Potosí, the Pacific and Early Globalization

2 The Beat: Potosí's Production, a "Substance that Supports the Whole of Peru"

3 The "Pumping": Potosinean Silver Circulation towards Global Markets

3.1 Peru-Panama-Seville

3.2 Buenos Aires-Brazil-Europe and Africa

3.3 Peru-Mexico-China

3.4 Peruleros: Transporting Agents of Potosinean Silver across the World

4 Potosí as a Consumption Node: The Case of Chinese Goods

Chapter 7 Lords of Mines and Mills during the First Great Silver Boom of Potosí (1569-1610)

2 "Miners" in Potosí: Defining an Intricate Subject

3 Recovering the Names of the Potosí Miners, 1578 and 1610

4 Final Comments

Chapter 8 A Silver Bank: The Renaissance of Potosí and the Heterogeneous World of Its Producers in the Eighteenth Century

1 Introduction.

2 A Company, a Shareholders Bank, and a Spanish Crown Bank

3 The Heterogeneous World of Silver Ore Producers and Rescatistas: Azogueros, k'ajchas, Trapicheros, and Metals from Outside the City

4 Azogueros: A Unifying and Homogenizing Name

5 The k'ajchas, trapiches, and trapicheros

6 Reconsidering the Second Boom in Potosí and Its Causes

7 Conclusion

Part 4 Local, Regional and Global Impacts

Chapter 9 Local Links behind a Global Scandal: The Audiencia de Charcas and the Great Potosí Mint Fraud, ca. 1650

2 The Audiencia and the Mint Fraud before the Arrival of Nestares Marín

3 The Visita General of Nestares Marín and the Audiencia de Charcas

4 Merits and Demerits of Pedro de Azaña

5 Conclusion

Chapter 10 The Hangover: Global Consequences of the Great Potosí Mint Fraud, c. 1650-1675

2 Total Recall

3 Genoa

4 Portugal

5 France

6 Flanders

7 The Baltic

8 New England

9 The Wreck of the Vergulde Draeck

10 East and South Asia

11 Conclusion

Chapter 11 From the Ratio to Rothschild: Silver and Quicksilver-Recovering the Past for the Future in Nineteenth-Century Potosí (1800-1858)

2 From Colonial Reform to War

2.1 From Almadén to Potosí: New Routes

2.2 Periodizing the Ratio, 1800-1822

3 The Republic

3.1 The Republican Ratio

3.2 The visita of the Potosí Rivera, 1837-1838

4 Balance and Projections

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Barragán, Rossana Potosí in the Global Silver Age (16th--19th Centuries)

ISBN:

90-04-52868-7