“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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Language: | deu |
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Editura ASE Bucuresti
2010-11-01
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Series: | The Journal of Philosophical Economics |
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Online Access: | http://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/53.pdf |