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Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Contributor(s): Bigelow, Allison Margaret (Author)

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 ISBN: 1469654385     ISBN-13: 9781469654386
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
OUR PRICE: $40.38  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Americas (north Central South West Indies)
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- Social Science | Indigenous Studies
Dewey: 622.014
LCCN: 2019052077
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.5" W x 9.4" L (1.40 lbs) 376 pages
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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 Cristobal Colon and Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes and lesser-known writers such Alvaro 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Bigelow, Allison Margaret: - Allison Margaret Bigelow is assistant professor of colonial Latin American literature at the University of Virginia.
 
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