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Miners of the Red Mountain: Indian Labor in Potosí, 1545-1650

Miners of the Red Mountain: Indian Labor in Potosí, 1545-1650

Bakewell, Peter

Paperback

South American History

ISBN10: 0826349005
ISBN13: 9780826349002
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: Jan 1 2010
Pages: 229
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Assumptions and speculation about the Spanish conquerors' treatment of the indigenous miners at Potisí, Peru, have long obscured the complexity of the motives in mining there. Peter Bakewell's innovative study incorporates the Indians' viewpoint, finding that they were willing to work for the Spaniards. Many of them quickly combined their technical skills and individual initiative to become the first silver mining entrepreneurs of Potosí. Although Indian entrepreneurship declined after the 1750s, a substantial portion of the native work force retained more control over its condition of labor and life than previously recognized.

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