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Potosi
- The Silver City That Changed the World
Af: Kris Lane
Engelsk
Bogcover for Potosi af Kris Lane, 9780520383357
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780520383357
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0520383354
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
16 mar 2021
Størrelse i cm:
15,3 x 22,7 x 1,8
Oplagsdato:
16 mar 2021
Forfatter(e):

Potosi

- The Silver City That Changed the World
Af: Kris Lane
Engelsk
Paperback 2021
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"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí 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 Potosí 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.  Potosí 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 Potosí’s startling emergence in the sixteenth century to its collapse in the nineteenth. 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, Potosí reveals the relentless human tradition in boom times and bust.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780520383357
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0520383354
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
16 mar 2021
Størrelse i cm:
15,3 x 22,7 x 1,8
Oplagsdato:
16 mar 2021
Forfatter(e):
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