Robins, Nicholas A. (Author)
"On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven tale of what colonial exploitation of indigenous peoples and resources left in its wake. It is a socio-ecological history that explores the toxic interrelationships between mercury and silver production, urban environments, and the people who lived and worked in them. Nicholas A. Robins tells the story of how native peoples in the region were conscripted into the noxious ranks of foot soldiers of proto-globalism, and how their fate, and that of their communities, was - and still is - chained to it."--pub. desc.
...MoreReview Hosler, Dorothy (2013) Review of "Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes". Technology and Culture (pp. 973-975).
Review Miller, Shawn W. (2012) Review of "Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes". American Historical Review (pp. 1639-1640).
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Guerrero, Saúl;
(2012)
Chemistry as a Tool for Historical Research: Identifying Paths of Historical Mercury Pollution in the Hispanic New World
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Lance C. Thurner;
Bigelow, Allison Margaret;
(2020)
Allison Bigelow, “Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World” (UNC Press 2020)
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Guerrero, Saúl;
(2012)
Chemistry as a Tool for Historical Research: Estimating the Contraband of Silver from Potosí and Oruro, 1576--1650
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Orlando Bentancor;
(2017)
The Matter of Empire: Metaphysics and Mining in Colonial Peru
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Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis;
Jimena Diaz Leiva;
Ruth Goldstein;
(2023)
Amalgamated Histories: Tracing Quicksilver's Legacy Through Environmental and Political Bodies in Andean and Amazonian Gold Mining
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Few, Martha;
Tortorici, Zeb;
(2013)
Centering Animals in Latin American History
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Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken;
Schecter, David;
(2010)
The Environmental Dynamics of a Colonial Fuel-Rush: Silver Mining and Deforestation in New Spain, 1522 to 1810
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Renée Raphael;
(2023)
Toward a Critical Transatlantic History of Early Modern Mining: Depiction, Reality, and Readers’ Expectations in Álvaro Alonso Barba’s 1640 El arte de los metales
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Cristian Andrés Bastías Curivil;
Reynaldo Charrier;
Claudio Vicente Millacura;
Luis Aguirre;
Francisco Hervé;
Marcelo Farías;
(2021)
Influence of geological processes in the cosmovision of the Mapuche native people in south central Chile
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Walker, Charles F.;
(2008)
Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath
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Nikolaus Klein;
Paul Oberholzer;
Esther Schmid Heer;
(2019)
Transfer, Begegnung, Skandalon? Neue Perspektiven auf die Jesuitenmissionen in Spanisch-Amerika
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Allison Margaret Bigelow;
(2020)
Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
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Ramos, Gabriela;
(2013)
Indian Hospitals and Government in the Colonial Andes
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Warren, Adam;
(2013)
From Natural History to Popular Remedy: Animals and Their Medicinal Applications among the Kallawaya in Colonial Peru
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John W. Verano;
(2016)
Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru
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Chapman, Anne;
(2010)
European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin
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William Eamon;
(2018)
Corn, Cochineal, and Quina: The “Zilsel Thesis” in a Colonial Iberian Setting
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Renée Raphael;
(2020)
In Pursuit of “Useful” Knowledge: Documenting Technical Innovation in Sixteenth-Century Potosí
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Santiago Giménez-Roldán;
John C. Steele;
Valerie S. Palmer;
Peter S. Spencer;
(2021)
Lytico-bodig in Guam: Historical links between diet and illness during and after Spanish colonization
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Norris, John A.;
(2014)
Auß Quecksilber und Schwefel Rein: Johann Mathesius (1504--65) and Sulfur-Mercurius in the Silver Mines of Joachimstal
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