Nicholas A. Robins

Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes

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On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silverproduction processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire exploresthe effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potos, inpresent-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven tale of whatcolonial exploitation of indigenous peoples and resources left in its wake. It is asocio-ecological history that explores the toxic interrelationships between mercuryand silver production, urban environments, and the people who lived and worked inthem. Nicholas A. Robins tells the story of how native peoples in the region wereconscripted in… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-35651-2
EAN: 9780253356512
Produktnummer: 11350268
Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 298 S.
Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.8 cm 662 g
Gewicht: 662
Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor

Nicholas A. Robins is a lecturer in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He is author of Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas (IUP, 2005) and editor (with Adam Jones) of Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice (IUP, 2009), among other works.