Santa Bárbara's legacy : an environmental history of Huancavelica, Peru /
"In Santa Bárbara's Legacy : an Environmental History of Huancavelica, Peru, Nicholas A. Robins presents the first comprehensive environmental history of a mercury producing region in Latin America. Tracing the origins, rise and decline of the regional population and economy from pre-histo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2017.
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| Series: | Brill's series in the history of the environment ;
v. 5. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Huaca-Villca : from geological formation to Spanish conquest
- The Pachacuti : colonization, catastrophe and the rise of mercury
- "A horrible business" : the Mita
- The Bourbon era : reform and resentment
- "They all come to die" : mining, mishaps and mercurialism
- Desuetude, decay and neglect : the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Epilogue
- Appendix.
