The difficult legacy of mining in past and contemporary Potosí and Ouro Preto
The cities of Potosí (Bolivia) and Ouro Preto (Brazil) have played central economic roles during Latin America’s long colonial history of mineral extraction, feeding the Spanish and Portuguese empires with silver (Potosí) and gold (Ouro Preto) and, consequently, changing the world’s economy. Based o...
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University of Texas Press
2019
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