Mining Language - Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy

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Mining Language - Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy
epub | 10.2 MB | English | Author :Allison Margaret Bigelow | 1469654385 | 2020 | Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press

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[spoiler]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...[/spoiler]

Category : | Mining, Science of Prospecting & Mining, Labor & Industrial Relations

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