Nicholas A Robins

Mercury, Mining, and Empire

The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes

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Produktbeschreibung

Robins tells the story of how native peoples in the region were conscripted into the noxious ranks of foot soldiers of proto-globalism, and how their fate, and that of their communities, was-and still is-chained to it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780253356512
• ISBN-10: 0253356512
• Artikelnr.: 33611336

Autorenporträt

Nicholas A. Robins is a lecturer in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He is author of Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas (IUP, 2005) and editor (with Adam Jones) of Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice (IUP, 2009), among other works.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Amalgamating an Empire
2. Toxic Travails: Mining in Huancavelica
3. Blood Silver
4. Connecting the Drops: The Wider Human and Environmental Costs
5. From Corrosion to Collapse: The Destruction of Native Communities
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index