...Joseph P. Feldman Now Peru Is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist . By Llamojha Mitma Manuel and Heilman Jaymie Patricia . Narrating Native Histories . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 239 pp...

...Arthur S. Aiton The Huancavelica Mercury Mine. A Contribution to the History of the Bourbon Renaissance in the Spanish Empire . By Whitaker Arthur Preston . ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1941 . Pp. xiii , 150 . $2.00 .) Copyright 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 ...

... relationships between miners and the itinerant, single women who populated the mining camps promoted labor unrest. They therefore forced miners into marriage, provided family allowances to men who formalized family ties, built housing for married workers and schools for workers’ children, and generally promoted...

...Stephen Haber British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960 . By Eakin Marshall C. . Durham : Duke University Press , 1990 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index. xxiii...

.... 50); and a 1618 complaint from Tlaltizapan, Ticuman, and Iztoluca that they must send workers to the mines of Taxco and Cuautla at the same time (AGN, Indios, vol. 7, exp. 298, fol. 144r). 46 For records of repartimiento reductions, see AGN, Indios, vol. 11, exp. 25, fol. 19r (Mazatépec, 1638...

... cabinet. Maytorena acted quickly to solidify his political position by prohibiting the sale of real estate to foreigners (except the mining companies), establishing a special war tax against “enemies of the Revolution,” creating a customs bureau to regulate trade along the border, and inviting back...

...Steven S. Volk Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 T he 1820s opened a period of nearly 50 years of expansion of mining in Chile. During that decade, Chile’s mines produced a yearly average of 2.7 million kilograms of bar copper. Production increased by nearly 70 percent over...

...Donna J. Guy The arguments presented and the evidence offered in the various chapters are convincing, but somewhat difficult to follow because of the organizational structure of the book. Further, those unfamiliar with Quechua phrases and jargon of the mines would have been aided...

...Walter Howe Copyright 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 The Mining Community in Northern New Spain: The Parral Mining District . By West Robert C. . [ Ibero-Americana: 30 .] ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1949 . Pp. viii , 169 . Plates. Paper .) ...

...Christian Brannstrom Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes . By Robins Nicholas A. . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2011 . Maps. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xiv , 299 pp. Cloth , $45.00...

...Allison Bigelow This is an innovative approach to the study of mining in colonial Latin America—one that uses mining as a means to interrogate the ideological inconsistencies that undergird the Spanish empire and shape the world we know today, in which organic matter (animal, plant, mineral...

...Clement G. Motten The Mining Guild of New Spain and Its Tribunal General 1770-1821 . By Howe Walter . ( Harvard Historical Studies, Volume LVI .) ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1949 . Pp. ix , 534 . $7.50 .) Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ...

...Preston E. James Mines and Minerals in Brazil . By Leão Josias . [ Studies in Brazilian Economic Life .] ( Rio de Janeiro : Centro de Estudos Econômicos , 1939 . Pp. 239 .) Copyright 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 ...

...Asunción Lavrin This book brings a special understanding to the problems of mine women at home and in society at large. Personally, Domitila rejects feminism as alien to the interests of the workers. Yet, she has done much to earn a higher status for the women of the mines as well as to earn...

...Myrna Santiago Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America . Edited by Bebbington Anthony and Bury Jeffrey . Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource Management and Conservation . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . Photographs. Maps...

...Cadence Wynter Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora: Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . By Josiah Barbara P. . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . Illustrations. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 274 pp. Cloth , $90.00 . Copyright...

... and described by Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, was an occasion not only to show that Potosí sustained the king, and indeed the whole world, but also to criticize him and the money spent amid the mining crisis. In contrast to Potosí's invenciones, Minas Gerais employed literary texts in its commemorations, part...

...Elizabeth Kuznesof Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais . By Higgins Kathleen J. . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press : 1999 . Photographs. Graphs. Tables. Appendixes...

...Josiah Mcc. Heyman Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880–1930 . By Calderón Roberto R. . Rio Grande/Río Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition, no. 2 . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2000 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes...