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Islanders and Empire
A pioneering examination of the role smuggling played in the transformation of Spanish Caribbean society and culture in the seventeenth century.
The Shining Path in Huancavelica, Peru
This is the first work exploring the colonial roots, modern context, trajectory and legacy of the Shining Path insurgency in the region of Huancavelica, Peru, one of Peru’s most impoverished and Quechua-speaking regions. The use of terroristic violence to implement a revolutionary and exclusivist ideology was without precedent in Latin America, presaging later movements such as ISIS. Integrating interviews, testimonials, survey data and the vast primary and secondary literature on the insurgency, this work examines how Huancavelican communities experienced and continue to shoulder the consequences of an exterminatory conflict thirty years after the insurgency was largely, although not entirely, defeated.
Silver "Thieves, Tin Barons, and Conquistadors
This book traces the history of Indigenous mining in southern Bolivia from Inka times to the present using archaeological and historical sources. It argues that small-scale mineral production can only be understood in relation to large-scale mining in the context of colonialism and its aftermath.
Potosí in the Global Silver Age (16th—19th Centuries)
The open access publication of this book has been made possible thanks to the International Institute of Social History – Amsterdam. Potosí (today Bolivia) was the major supplier for the Spanish Empire and for the world and still today boasts the world's single-richest silver deposit. This book explores the political economy of silver production and circulation illuminating a vital chapter in the history of global capitalism. It travels through geology, sacred spaces, and technical knowledge in the first section; environmental history and labor in the second section; silver flows, the heterogeneous world of mining producers, and their agency in the third; and some of the local, regional, ...
Los oficios en las sociedades indianas
Este libro colectivo retoma un tema ya antiguo en la historia social para adaptarlo a nuevas perspectvias, ámbitos, fuentes y métodos. Se interesa en el estudio de los oficios en los entornos novohispano y andino: en sus orígenes, relaciones laborales, ténicas, saberes, productos y condición social de quienes los ejercían. Las distintas constribuciones emplean recursos cuantitativos, pero también se acercan a los trabajdores de "carne y hueso". Las hisotrias de vida, creencias, emociones, conflictos cotidianos e identidades son parte importante de la narrativa. Los oficios estudiados no son solamente los clásicos —como los mineros, marineros y obrajeros— sino también otros que habían pasado casi inadvertidos, como los jicareros, recolectors de miel y las mujeres comerciantes. Asímismo, se incluyó a otros —los párrocos, médios y "oficiales de pluma"— que podían ser parte de la elite, pero compartían situaciones y condiciones que hacían posible considerarlos dentro del variado mundos de los oficios. El conjunto permite renovar y poner al día el fascinante panorama del mundo laboral indiano.
Tendencias en la historiografía bajacaliforniana del siglo XXI
Próximo a cumplir 50 años de su fundación, el Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la UABC publica esta obra colectiva de libre acceso, en la que se narra la historia de actores políticos, sociales y económicos que cruzan y viven la región fronteriza del norte de México, desde la época colonial hasta nuestros días; se analizan actores y procesos en diferentes dimensiones espaciales, en un diálogo co la historiografía reciente y con temáticas de interés para la sociedad contemporánea. Los capítulos que integran la obra son una muestra de las líneas de investigación que se han consolidado en la última década en este Instituto, como la historia de las instituciones de ...
Worlds of Labour in Latin America
This book reflects the development of Latin American labour history across broad geographical, chronological and thematic perspectives, which seek to review and revisit key concepts at different levels. The contributions are closely linked to the most recent trends in Global Labour History and in turn, they enrich those trends. Here, authors from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Spain take a historical and sociological perspective and analyse a series of problems relating to labour relations. The chapters weave together different periods of Latin American colonial and republican history from the vice-royalties of New Spain (now Mexico) and Peru, the Royal Audiencia de Charcas (now Bolivia), Argentina and Uruguay (former vice-royalty of Río de La Plata) and Chile (former Capitanía General).
Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America
Highlighting the relationship among science, politics, and culture in Latin American history Challenging the common view that Latin America has lagged behind Europe and North America in the global history of science, this volume reveals that the region has long been a center for scientific innovation and imagination. It highlights the important relationship among science, politics, and culture in Latin American history. Scholars from a variety of fields including literature, sociology, and geography bring to light many of the cultural exchanges that have produced and spread scientific knowledge from the early colonial period to the present day. Among many topics, these essays describe ideas ...
Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic
This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining and its monetary use in the early modern Atlantic World will also be considered. Contributors rely mainly on economic and economic history methodologies, complemented by geographical and cultural history approaches. The use of novel software applications as tools to explain economic-historical episodes is also detailed.
