Potosi, Volume 27: The Silver City That Changed the World, Lane Kris
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Автор: Lane Kris Название: Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World ISBN: 0520280849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520280847 Издательство: Wiley Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "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.
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Описание: Title: Revolucion comenzada en S. Luis Potosí el dia 14 de Abril de 1837. Documentos que acreditan la conducta del ... Gral. de brigada J. J. de Andrade.
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British Library Andrade, Juan José de; 1837. 76 p.; 8 . 9771.bbb.17.
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