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

Published Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (377 pages) Series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: Recreating the Archive -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Meaning of Metals -- GOLD -- 1. Gathering Indigenous Knowledges -- 2. Visual Languages of Space and Place -- 3. Seasons of Gold -- IRON -- 4. Iron, Indios, and Iberian Science in Dialogue -- 5. Early Modern Dialogues and Colonial Knowledges -- COPPER -- 6. Narrative Circuits of New World Copper -- 7. Literary Forms, Imperial Projections, and the Limits of Possibility in Copper Colonies -- SILVER 8. Amalgamating Knowledge, Translating Empire -- 9. Color and Casta in the Andean Silver Industry -- 10. The Colonial Science of Like and Unlike -- Hacia una conclusión: Comparing Metals, Materials, and Ideas across Archives -- Appendix 1. Chapters in d'Orta, Clusius, Fragoso, and Briganti -- Appendix 2. Mining Terminology in Barba, García de Llanos, González Holguín, Bertonio, Montagu, Lange, Hautin de Villars, and Lenglet du Fresnoy -- Appendix 3. Official Weights and Measures -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z Summary 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Mineral industries -- Latin America -- Language -- History Mines and mineral resources -- Latin America -- History Language and culture -- Latin America -- History Indians -- Language -- Influence on Spanish Indians -- Language -- Influence on Portuguese African languages -- Latin America -- Influence on Spanish African languages -- Latin America -- Influence on Portuguese HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) African languages -- Influence on Portuguese African languages -- Influence on Spanish Language and culture Mines and mineral resources Latin America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1469654407 9781469654409 9781469654393 1469654393

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