History 3071, Colonial Latin America

The Discovery and Growth of Potosi

Citations

 

Greenfield, Patrick. “Story of Cities #6: How Silver Turned Potosí into ‘the First City of Capitalism’.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 21 Mar. 2016, www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/21/story-of-cities-6-potosi-bolivia-peru-inca-first-city-capitalism. 

Lane, Kris. Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World. University of California Press, 2019. 

Lacas, M. M. “The Encomienda in Latin-American History: A Reappraisal.” The Americas, vol. 8, no. 3, Cambridge University Press, 1952, pp. 259–87, https://doi.org/10.2307/978373.

 

Minster, Christopher. “1542: Spain’s New Laws Send the Colonies into Revolution.” ThoughtCo, ThoughtCo, 21 Mar. 2021, www.thoughtco.com/the-new-laws-of-1542-2136445.

Preskar, Peter. “The Potosi Silver Mine-the Treasury of the World.” Medium, History of Yesterday, 5 June 2021, historyofyesterday.com/potosi-8f53581eac88. 

Robins, Nicholas A. “Amalgamating an Empire.” Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes, Indiana University Press, 2011, pp. 13–46, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzm2m.6.

Stavig, Ward. “Continuing the Bleeding of These Pueblos Will Shortly Make Them Cadavers: The Potosi Mita, Cultural Identity, and Communal Survival in Colonial Peru.” The Americas, vol. 56, no. 4, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 529–62, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1008172.

Robins, Nicholas A. Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes. Indiana University Press, 2011, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzm2m.

The Growth of Potosi

Work Cited:

Greenfield, Patrick. “Story of Cities #6: How Silver Turned Potosí into ‘the First City of Capitalism’.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 21 Mar. 2016, www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/21/story-of-cities-6-potosi-bolivia-peru-inca-first-city-capitalism. 

 

Lane, Kris. Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World. University of California Press, 2019. 

 

Robins, Nicholas A. “Amalgamating an Empire.” Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes, Indiana University Press, 2011, pp. 13–46, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzm2m.6.

 

Preskar, Peter. “The Potosi Silver Mine-the Treasury of the World.” Medium, History of Yesterday, 5 June 2021, historyofyesterday.com/potosi-8f53581eac88. 

 

The Growth of Potosi

Work Cited:

Greenfield, Patrick. “Story of Cities #6: How Silver Turned Potosí into ‘the First City of Capitalism’.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 21 Mar. 2016, www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/21/story-of-cities-6-potosi-bolivia-peru-inca-first-city-capitalism. 

Lane, Kris. Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World. University of California Press, 2019. 

Robins, Nicholas A. “Amalgamating an Empire.” Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes, Indiana University Press, 2011, pp. 13–46, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzm2m.6.

Preskar, Peter. “The Potosi Silver Mine-the Treasury of the World.” Medium, History of Yesterday, 5 June 2021, historyofyesterday.com/potosi-8f53581eac88.