Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- 1 The Spanish conquest and settlement of America
- 2 Indian societies and the Spanish conquest
- 3 Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 4 Spain and America: The Atlantic trade, 1492–c.1720
- 5 Spain and America in the eighteenth century
- 6 Population
- 7 Urban development
- 8 Mining
- 9 The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain
- 10 The rural economy and society of Spanish South America
- 11 Aspects of the internal economy: Labour, taxation, distribution and exchange
- 12 Social organization and social change
- 13 Indian societies under Spanish rule
- 14 Africans in Spanish American colonial society
- 15 Women in Spanish American colonial society
- 16 The Catholic church
- 17 Literature and intellectual life
- 18 Architecture and art
- 19 Music
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
8 - Mining
from II - COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- 1 The Spanish conquest and settlement of America
- 2 Indian societies and the Spanish conquest
- 3 Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 4 Spain and America: The Atlantic trade, 1492–c.1720
- 5 Spain and America in the eighteenth century
- 6 Population
- 7 Urban development
- 8 Mining
- 9 The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain
- 10 The rural economy and society of Spanish South America
- 11 Aspects of the internal economy: Labour, taxation, distribution and exchange
- 12 Social organization and social change
- 13 Indian societies under Spanish rule
- 14 Africans in Spanish American colonial society
- 15 Women in Spanish American colonial society
- 16 The Catholic church
- 17 Literature and intellectual life
- 18 Architecture and art
- 19 Music
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
No good general book on colonial Spanish American mining yet exists. Carlos Prieto’s Mining in the New World (New York, 1973) is slight. Perceptive observations abound, however, in D. A. Brading and Harry E. Cross, ‘Colonial silver mining: Mexico and Peru’, HAHR, 52/4 (1972), 545–79, and in Alvaro Jara, Tres ensayos sobre economía minera hispanoamericana (Santiago, Chile, 1966). For silver production over the entire colonial period, see Richard L. Garner, ‘Long-term silver mining trends in Spanish America: A comparative analysis of Peru and Mexico’, AHR, 93/4 (1988), 898–935. Adám Szászdi, ‘Preliminary estimates of gold and silver production in America, 1501–1610’, in Hermann Kellenbenz, Precious Metals in the Age of Expansion (Stuttgart, 1981), gives more detailed estimates for the first century. Modesto Bargalló, La minería y la metalurgia en la América española durante la época colonial (Mexico, D.F., 1955) concentrates on technical aspects of mining and refining, on which it is still the best study available. For the Spanish background to colonial mining, see Julio Sánchez Gómez’s impressively thorough De minería, metalúrgica y comercio de metales: La minería no férrica en el Reino de Castilla, 1450–1610, 2 vols. (Salamanca, 1989).
The fundamental bibliography is Eugenio Maffei and Ramón Rúa Figueroa, Apuntes para una biblioteca española de libros, folletos y artículos, impresos y manuscritos, relativos al conocimiento y explotación de las riquezas minerales y a las ciencias auxiliares, 2 vols. (Madrid, 1871), reprinted in VI Congreso Internacional de Minería, vols. 2 and 3 (León, 1970). This is supplemented by Justo García Morales, Apuntes para una bibliografía minera espanola e iberoamericana (1870–1969), VI Congreso Internacional de Mineria, vol. 4 (León, 1970).
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 78 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995