“This lofty mountain of silver could conquer the whole world”: Potosí and the political ecology of underdevelopment, 1545-1800[1]

By the 1570’s, Potosí, and its silver, had become the hub of acommodity revolution that reorganized Peru’s peoples and landscapes to serve capital and empire. This was a decisive moment in the world ecological revolution of the long seventeenth century. Primitive accumulation in Peru was particularl...

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Main Author: Jason Moore
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Editura ASE Bucuresti 2010-11-01
Series:The Journal of Philosophical Economics
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Online Access:http://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/53.pdf