Mercury, Mining, and Empire The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes

Name: Mercury, Mining, and Empire The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes
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ISBN: 9780253356512

ISBN-10: 0253356512

ISBN-13: 9780253356512

Edition: 2011

Authors: Nicholas A. Robins

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/25/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Nicholas A. Robins is a lecturer in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He is author of Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas (IUP, 2005) and editor (with Adam Jones) of Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice (IUP, 2009), among other works.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Amalgamating an Empire



Toxic Travails: Mining in Huancavelica



Blood Silver



Connecting the Drops: The Wider Human and Environmental Costs



From Corrosion to Collapse: The Destruction of Native Communities


Conclusion


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index