An Expanding World Volume 19
Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas
AN EXPANDING WORLD
The European Impact on World History, 14501800
General Editor: A.J.R. Russell-Wood
EXPANSION, INTERACTION, ENCOUNTERS
1 The Global OpportunityFelipe Fernndez-Armesto
2 The European OpportunityFelipe Fernndez-Armesto
3 The Globe Encircled and the World RevealedUrsula Lamb
4 Europeans in Africa and AsiaAnthony Disney
5 The Colonial AmericasAmy Turner Bushnell
TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
6 Scientific Aspects of European ExpansionWilliam Storey
7 Technology and European Overseas EnterpriseMichael Adas
TRADE AND COMMODIES
8 Merchant Networks in the Early Modern WorldSanjay Subrahmanyam
9 The Atlantic Staple Trade (Parts I & II) Susan Socolow
10 European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern AsiaOm Prakash
11 Spices in the Indian Ocean WorldM.N. Pearson
12 Textiles: Production, Trade and DemandMaureen Mazzaoui
13 Interoceanic Trade in European ExpansionPieter Emmer and Femme Gaastra
14 Metals and Monies in a Global EconomyDennis O. Flynn and Arturo Girldez
15 Slave TradesPatrick Manning
EXPLOITATION
16 From Indentured Servitude to SlaveryColin Palmer
17 Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental ChangeHelen Wheatley
18 Plantation SocietiesJudy Bieber
19 Mines of Silver and Gold in the AmericasPeter Bakewell
GOVERNMENT AND EMPIRE
20 Theories of EmpireDavid Armitage
21 Government and Governance of EmpiresA.J.R. Russell-Wood
22 Imperial AdministratorsMark Burkholder
23 Local Government in European EmpiresA.J.R. Russell-Wood
24 Warfare and EmpiresDouglas M. Peers
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
25 Settlement Patterns in Early Modern ColonizationJoyce Lorimer
26 Biological Consequences of the European ExpansionKenneth F. Kiple and StephenV. Beck
27 European and non-European Societies (Parts I & II) Robert Forster
28 Christianity and MissionsJ.S. Cummins
29 Families in the Expansion of EuropeMaria Beatriz Nizza da Silva
30 Changes in Africa, America and AsiaMurdo MacLeod and Evelyn Rawski
THE WORLD AND EUROPE
31 Europe and Europes Perception of the World (Parts I & II) Anthony Pagden
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1. Silver mines and mining-America-History. 2. Gold mines and mining-America-History. 3. Precious metal industries-America-History. I. Bakewell, Peter.
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p. cm. - (An Expanding World: Vol. 19). Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Silver mines and mining-Latin America-History. 2. Silver industry-History. 3. Gold mines and mining-Latin America-History. 4. Gold industry-History. I. Bakewell, PJ. (Peter John), 1943- . II. Series.
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AN EXPANDING WORLD 19
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Contents
Ivor Wilks
Robert C. West
Robert C. West
Peter Bakewell
Alan Probert
Enrique Tandeter
Peter Bakewell
Ann Zulawski
Richard L. Gamer
John H. Coatsworth
John Fisher
D.A. Brading
A.J.R. Russell-Wood
Guide
The chapters in this volume are taken from the sources listed below, for which the editor and publishers wish to thank their authors, original publishers or other copyright holders for permission to use their material as follows:
Chapter 1: Ivor Wilks, Wangara, Akan, and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, in Ivor Wilks, Forests of Gold: Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante (Athens, Ohio, 1993), pp. 139. Copyright 1993 by Ohio University Press.
Chapter 2: Robert C. West, Aboriginal Metallurgy and Metalworking in Spanish America: A Brief Overview, in eds. Alan K. Craig and Robert C. West, In Quest of Mineral Wealth: Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America, Geoscience and Man XXXIII (Baton Rouge, La., 1995), pp. 520. Copyright 1995 by Geoscience Publications, Department of Geography & Anthropology, Louisiana State University.
Chapter 3: Robert C. West, Early Silver Mining in New Spain, 15311555, in eds. Alan K. Craig and Robert C. West, In Quest of Mineral Wealth: Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America, Geoscience and Man XXXTTT (Baton Rouge, La., 1995), pp. 119135. Copyright 1995 by Geoscience Publications, Department of Geography & Anthropology, Louisiana State University.
Chapter 4: Peter Bakewell, Technological Change in Potos: The Silver Boom of the 1570s, in eds. Richard Konetzke and Hermann Kellenbenz et al., Jahrbuch fr Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas XIV (Cologne/Vienna, 1977), pp. 5777. Copyright 1977 by Bhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie.
Chapter 5: Alan Probert, Bartolom de Medina: the Patio Process and the Sixteenth Century Silver Crisis, Journal of the West VIII, no. 1 (Manhattan, Kans., 1969), pp. 90124. Copyright 1969 by the Journal of the West, Inc.
Chapter 6: Enrique Tandeter, Forced and Free Labour in Late Colonial Potos, Past and Present XCI (Oxford, 1981), pp. 98136. Copyright 1981 by the Past and Present Society.
Chapter 7: Peter Bakewell, Notes on the Mexican Silver Mining Industry in the 1590s, Humanitas. Anuario del Centro de Estudios Humansticos XIX (Nuevo Len, Mexico, 1978), pp. 383409. Copyright 1978 by the Universidad Autnoma de Nuevo Len.
Chapter 8: Ann Zulawski, Wages, Ore Sharing, and Peasant Agriculture: Labour in Oruros Silver Mines, 16071720, Hispanic American Historical Review LXVII, no. 3 (Durham, NC, 1987), pp. 405430. Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press.
