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

• Superior document: Studies in Global Social History Series ; Volume 49
• VerfasserIn: Barragán R., Rossana; Zagalsky, Paula C.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Zagalsky, Paula C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in global social history ; Volume 49.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (511 pages)

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.

Table of 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
• Acknowledgments
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• Chapter 2 The Potosí Mita and the Geological Foundations of a Colonial Debate
• 1 Introduction
• 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
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• Chapter 3 Reading along the Administrative Grain: Knowledge Production and the Investigation of Refining Improvements in Late Sixteenth-Century Potosí
• 1 Introduction
• 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
• 1 Introduction
• 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
• Acknowledgments
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• Chapter 5 The Market of Small Freedoms: Labor Negotiation in Seventeenth Century Potosí
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Labor Organization in the Early Mint
• 3 The Market of Small Freedoms and Its Rise
• 4 Market Structures
• 5 The Market in Decline
• 6 Conclusions
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• 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
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• Chapter 7 Lords of Mines and Mills during the First Great Silver Boom of Potosí (1569-1610)
• 1 Introduction
• 2 "Miners" in Potosí: Defining an Intricate Subject
• 3 Recovering the Names of the Potosí Miners, 1578 and 1610
• 4 Final Comments
• Acknowledgements
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• 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
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• 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
• 1 Introduction
• 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
• Acknowledgements
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• Chapter 10 The Hangover: Global Consequences of the Great Potosí Mint Fraud, c. 1650-1675
• 1 Introduction
• 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
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• Chapter 11 From the Ratio to Rothschild: Silver and Quicksilver-Recovering the Past for the Future in Nineteenth-Century Potosí (1800-1858)
• 1 Introduction
• 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
• Primary Sources
• Bibliography
• Index.