Verfasst von:	Bigelow, Allison Margaret [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Mining language
Titelzusatz:	racial thinking, indigenous knowledge, and colonial metallurgy in the early modern Iberian world
Institutionen:	Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture [HerausgeberIn]
Verf.angabe:	Allison Margaret Bigelow ; published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virgina and the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
Verlagsort:	Williamsburg, Virginia
	Chapel Hill
Verlag:	Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
	University of North Carolina Press
E-Jahr:	2020
Jahr:	[2020]
	[2020]
Umfang:	xvi, 354 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen, Karten
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-1-4696-5438-6
Abstract:	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"--
Schlagwörter:	(g)Lateinamerika    / (g)Südamerika    / (s)Goldbergbau    / (s)Silberbergbau    / (s)Fachsprache    / (z)Geschichte
Sprache:	eng
K10plus-PPN:	1688721738