Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World (California World History Library) (Volume 27),Used

Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World (California World History Library) (Volume 27),Used

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For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potos as a city . . . Lanes book is the ideal place to begin.'The New York Review of BooksIn 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 citys rise and fall. It tells the story of global economic transformation and the environmental and social impact of rampant colonial exploitation from Potoss startling emergence in the sixteenth century to its collapse in the nineteenth. Throughout, Kris Lanes 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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