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Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World - Couverture rigide

Bigelow, Allison Margaret

 
9781469654386: Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
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ISBN 10 : 1469654385 ISBN 13 : 9781469654386
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020

Synopsis

Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain's northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building upon works that have narrated this global history of American mining in economic and labor terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials. This language-centric focus enables Allison Bigelow to document the crucial intellectual contributions Indigenous and African miners made to the very engine of European colonialism.

By carefully parsing the writings of well-known figures such as Cristóbal Colón and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés and lesser-known writers such Álvaro Alonso Barba, a Spanish priest who spent most of his life in the Andes, Bigelow uncovers the ways in which Indigenous and African metallurgists aided or resisted imperial mining endeavors, shaped critical scientific practices, and offered imaginative visions of metalwork. Her creative linguistic and visual analyses of archival fragments, images, and texts in languages as diverse as Spanish and Quechua also allow her to reconstruct the processes that led to the silencing of these voices in European print culture.

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À propos de l'auteur

Allison Margaret Bigelow is assistant professor of colonial Latin American literature at the University of Virginia.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469654385
ISBN 13 
9781469654386
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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