Author: P. J. BakewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Silver Mining and Society in Zacatecas, 1550-1700
Author: P. J. BakewellSilver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico, Zacatecas 1546-1700
Author: P. J. BakewellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523127
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A study of the development of Zacatecas, centre of the principal silver-mining region in Mexico.
Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico, Zacatecas 1546-1700
Author: P. J. BakewellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521082273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
An examination of silver mining and society in Colonial Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating upon Zacatecas, the centre of the principal silver-mining region. In the first half of the book, the author describes the discovery of the mines, the establishment of the town, its role in the northward advance of the Spanish occupation of Mexico, its administration, and the sources of its supplies of essential food and materials. The remainder of the book is devoted to an analysis of the mining industry of the Zacatecas district. The author discusses techniques, labour and raw materials. He also provides statistics for silver production, suggesting reasons for their fluctuation, and explores sources of capital for the industry. Based on detailed study of archives in both Spain and Mexico, Dr Bakewell is able to provide an entirely new chronology for the development of Zacatecas and the Mexican maining industry up to 1700.
The Old World and the New
Author: J. H. ElliottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521427098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This 1992 book shows how the discovery of the new world affected Europe intellectually, economically, and politically.
Silver Miming and Society in Colonial Mexico:Zacatecas, 1546-1700
Author: Peter John BakewellUrban Indians in a Silver City
Author: Dana Velasco MurilloPublisher:
ISBN: 9781503615021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these towns, the need for labor, raw materials, resources, and foodstuffs brought together an array of different ethnic and social groups--Spaniards, Indians, Africans, and ethnically mixed individuals or castas. On the northern edge of the empire, 350 miles from Mexico City, sprung up Zacatecas, a silver-mining town that would grow in prominence to become the "Second City of New Spain." Urban Indians in a Silver City illuminates the social footprint of colonial Mexico's silver mining district. It reveals the men, women, children, and families that shaped indigenous society and shifts the view of indigenous peoples from mere laborers to settlers and vecinos (municipal residents). Dana Velasco Murillo shows how native peoples exploited the urban milieu to create multiple statuses and identities that allowed them to live in Zacatecas as both Indians and vecinos. In reconsidering traditional paradigms about ethnicity and identity among the urban Indian population, she raises larger questions about the nature and rate of cultural change in the Mexican north.
Establishing Exceptionalism
Author: Amy Turner BushnellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351939165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Since the 1950s historians of the colonial era in North, South and Central America have extended the frontiers of basic general knowledge enormously; this rich historiographical tradition has generated robust methodological discussions about how to study the European encounter in the light of the experience of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. By bringing together major research reviews by a series of leading scholars, this volume makes it possible to compare directly approaches relating to colonial North America, Brazil, the Spanish borderlands, and the Caribbean.
Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs
Author: Rocio Gomez (Professor of Latin American history)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781496221575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Rocio Gomez studies how the silver mining industry affected water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas, Mexico, from 1835 to 1946"-Del editor.
Mexican Silver-mining in the Eighteenth Century: the Revival of Zacatecas
Author: D. A. BradingSword of Empire
Author: Donald E. ChipmanPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1933337907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Sword of Empire: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas from Columbus to Cortés, 1492–1529 is, by design, an approachable and accessible history of some of the most life-altering events in the story of man. Chipman examines the contributions of Christopher Columbus and Hernando Cortes in creating the foundations of the Spanish Empire in North America. Chipman has produced a readable and accurate narrative for students and the reading public, although some information presented on Cortes cannot be found elsewhere in print and is therefore of interest to specialists in the history of Spain in America. Exclusive material from Professor France V. Scholes and the author share insights into the multi layered complexities of a man born in 1484 and named at birth Fernando Cortes. As for Columbus, born in Genoa on the Italian peninsula in 1451 and given the name Cristobal de Colon, he is a more transformative man than Cortes in bringing Western Civilization to the major Caribbean islands in the Spanish West Indies and beyond. Historians strive to present a “usable past” and the post-Columbian world is, of course, the modern world. Columbus's discoveries, those of other mariners who followed to the south in America, and still other eastward to the Asia placed the world on the path of global interdependence-both good and ill-for peoples of the world. There are no footnotes in Sword of Empire—this is narrative at its finest—but there are extensive bibliographies for each chapter that will prove useful for readers of every background.