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Silver: Transformational Matter

Silver: Transformational Matter

Hills, Helen

Hardcover

Series: Proceedings of the British Academy, Book 259

Art HistoryMedieval & Renaissance HistoryInterior Design

ISBN10: 0197267548
ISBN13: 9780197267547
Publisher: British Academy
Published: Dec 21 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics -- philosophical, religious, material, telluric, economic, colonialist, social, cultural, and courtly -- that traversed and profoundly altered the world. Silver from the so-called 'New World' bankrolled and justified the Spanish monarchy in its landgrab, wars, and empire building in both the Americas and in Europe. The great mountain of fabulously rich silver, Cerro Ricco in Potosí, relentlessly exploited by the Spanish invaders from 1545, irrevocably changed power relations, empires, and entire social and environmental ecologies across the globe. Accelerating global commerce and the growth of capitalism, trade in silver intensified the accumulation of capital and uneven trade balances, and enhanced the wealth of northern Europe at the expense of the Global South, particularly of Latin America. This wealth helped jump start the Industrial Revolution a century later.

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