Silver Thieves Tin Barons And Conquistadors
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Silver Thieves Tin Barons And Conquistadors
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Author : Mary Van Buren
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2024-07-02
Silver Thieves Tin Barons And Conquistadors written by Mary Van Buren and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-02 with Social Science categories.
The Spanish conquest of Peru was motivated by the quest for precious metals, a search that resulted in the discovery of massive silver deposits in what is now southern Bolivia. The enormous flow of specie into the world economy is usually attributed to the Spanish imposition of a forced labor system on the Indigenous population as well as the introduction of European technology. This narrative omits the role played by thousands of independent miners, often working illegally, who at different points in history generated up to 30 percent of the silver produced in the region. In this work, Mary Van Buren examines the long-term history of these workers, the technology they used, and their relationship to successive large-scale mining. The methods of historian Bertell Ollman, particularly a dialectical approach and “doing history backwards,” are used to examine small-scale mineral production in Porco, Bolivia. The research is based on nine seasons of archaeological fieldwork and historical research, with a particular focus on labor and technology. Van Buren argues that artisanal mineral production must be understood in relation to large-scale mining rather than as a traditional practice and that the Bolivian case is a culturally specific instantiation of a broader economic phenomenon that began under colonial regimes.
Magan The Land Of Copper
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Author : Claudio Giardino
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2019-06-13
Magan The Land Of Copper written by Claudio Giardino and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-13 with Social Science categories.
This volume describes the geography and environments of Oman, its rich copper ore deposits and the ancient mining and smelting techniques, and it also includes an overview of the physical properties of the different metals exploited in antiquity and of the analytical techniques used in archaeometallurgy.
Handbook To Life In America
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Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Handbook To Life In America written by Rodney P. Carlisle and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Amusements categories.
Examines the history of people, places, and events that defined the American colonial and revolutionary era.
Red Gold
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Author : John Hemming
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-08-06
Red Gold written by John Hemming and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-06 with Brazil categories.
Covering the history of the Brazilian Indians from 1500 to 1760, from the point of first contact through to their conquest by the Portuguese, this is the first volume in John Hemming's history of the Amazon.
Albion S Seed
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Author : David Hackett Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1991-03-14
Albion S Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-03-14 with History categories.
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Labyrinth
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Author : Beth Steel
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2016-09-29
Labyrinth written by Beth Steel and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with Drama categories.
'Three years ago the doomsayers were predicting the end. Financial apocalypse. But the system survived. Because the system works. Time to take advantage of the goodies on offer.'1978, New York. John Anderson is barely out of college and has landed himself a job on Wall Street. His dreams of unimaginable wealth, travel and power are made a reality as he jets around the globe selling loans to developing countries eager to borrow. And there are plenty - Mexico, Brazil, Argentina.But cracks in the banks' excessive lending strategy soon start to show. Despite the warning signs - and their consciences - John and his colleagues continue to pursue their targets, threatening to leave them all financially, and morally, bankrupt.Labyrinth premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in September 2016.
Sex Soldiers And The South Pacific 1939 45
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Author : Yorick Smaal
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-04
Sex Soldiers And The South Pacific 1939 45 written by Yorick Smaal and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-04 with History categories.
Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 explores the queer dynamics of war across Australia and forward bases in the south seas. It examines relationships involving Allied servicemen, civilians and between the legal and medical fraternities that sought to regulate and contain expressions of homosex in and out of the forces.
Winds From The North
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Author : Scott G. Ortman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-14
Winds From The North written by Scott G. Ortman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-14 with History categories.
A multifaceted approach to understanding the origins of the Tewa Pueblo people of New Mexico
The Machu Picchu Guidebook
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Author : Ruth M. Wright
language : en
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Release Date : 2004
The Machu Picchu Guidebook written by Ruth M. Wright and has been published by Big Earth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
"The best all around guide for those who've been or who are going to Machu Picchu . . . . Absolutely indispensable!"--Don Montague, president, South American Explorers. This revised edition includes newly discovered sites and full-color illustrations of real-life scenes from "National Geographic."
The End Of Development
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Author : Andrew Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2017-05-15
The End Of Development written by Andrew Brooks and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Social Science categories.
Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor? Human history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century in an argument grounded in a deep understanding of geography, Andrew Brooks rejects popular explanations for the divergence of nations. This accessible and illuminating volume shows how the wealth of ‘the West’ and poverty of ‘the rest’ stem not from environmental factors or some unique European cultural, social or technological qualities, but from the expansion of colonialism and the rise of America. Brooks puts the case that international inequality was moulded by capitalist development over the last 500 years. After the Second World War, international aid projects failed to close the gap between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ nations and millions remain impoverished. Rather than address the root causes of inequality, overseas development assistance exacerbate the problems of an uneven world by imposing crippling debts and destructive neoliberal policies on poor countries. But this flawed form of development is now coming to an end, as the emerging economies of Asia and Africa begin to assert themselves on the world stage. The End of Development provides a compelling account of how human history unfolded differently in varied regions of the world. Brooks argues that we must now seize the opportunity afforded by today’s changing economic geography to transform attitudes towards inequality and to develop radical new approaches to addressing global poverty, as the alternative is to accept that impoverishment is somehow part of the natural order of things.