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...Ela Miljkovic Embedded within the concept of heterogeneity, Walsh asserts, exists another, more conflict-ridden history. Enlightenment science, particularly chemistry, did the meticulous work of classifying and establishing the unique contents, qualities, and uses of Mexican mineral waters...

...José R. Deustua In Quest of Mineral Wealth: Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America . Edited by Craig Alan K. and West Robert C. . Baton Rouge : Geoscience Publications , 1994 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Appendixes. Notes . 354...

...James D. Theberge Foreign Investment in the Petroleum and Mineral Industries: Case Studies of Investor-Host Country Relations . By Mikesell Raymond F. . Foreword by Fisher Joseph L. . Baltimore , 1971 . Published for Resources for the Future by the Johns Hopkins Press...

... for their communities, the crown, and Spanish conquistadores. Historical evidence suggests that ore theft and small-scale production were widespread, and that European and Andean technologies played a role in these trends. Chapter 5 deals with the precontact period. While the Inca maintained control over mineral...

...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 ...

...A. J. Bauer Miners of the Red Mountain: Indian Labor in Potosí, 1545-1650 . By Bakewell Peter . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1985 . Illustrations. Notes. Figures. Map. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 213 . Cloth. $19.95 . Copyright 1985...

...Florencia E. Mallon Miners, Peasants and Entrepreneurs: Regional Development in the Central Highlands of Peru . By Long Norman and Roberts Bryan . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . Tables. Figures. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 288 . Cloth. $49.50...

...Robert J. Ferry Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia . By Twinam Ann . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1982 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 193 . Cloth . $22.00 . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984...

... and The Yaquis: A Cultural History . Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Missionaries, Miners, and Indians: Spanish Contact with the Yaqui Nation of Northwestern New Spain, 1533-1820 . By Hu-DeHart Evelyn . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1981 . Maps. Tables. Notes...

...Peter Bakewell Silver Mines and Silver Miners in Colonial Peru, 1776-1824 . By Fisheb John R. . Liverpool , 1977 . The University of Liverpool . Tables. Figures. Map. Notes. Glossary. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 150 . Paper. Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press 1978...

... with a fine annotated general bibliography on miners and mining in the Americas. Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Miners and Mining in the Americas . Edited by Greaves Thomas and Culver William . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 1985 . Maps. Figures. Tables...

... into the region were Dutch and Spanish traders, whose export of forest products, including timber, depended upon the knowledge and labor of native Americans. Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Guyana, Fragile Frontier: Loggers, Miners, and Forest Peoples . By Colchester Marcus...

... of Guanajuato during the same period. Insofar as I can make out a unifying theme, it appears to be the impact of the late Bourbon reforms on the economy and power structure of New Spain. Copyright 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Miners and Merchants in Bourbon Mexico, 1763-1810 . By Brading...

... to cabildo position; those without such prospects saw it as a millstone around their necks. From 1780 to 1810, 183 Medellinenses did accept positions on the cabildo, either as regidores (35) or as annually elected officials (148). Comparison of these officeholders with the names of miners entering...

..., Municipal President of Cananea, June 8, 1917, CCA, 1917 Documental, 0004. 89 At El Tigre, management claimed that it could not raise wages because of tax increases and miners’ relative unproductiveness. These arguments were rejected by General Calles, who had taken a direct interest in the strike...

... the figure had risen slightly to 447. 10 And it was increasingly difficult for Huancavelica miners to benefit even from the few Indians who ostensibly served the draft there. On the one hand, the practice of commutation of service in return for a cash payment (the entero en plata ) had become widespread...

..., Economic Mineral Deposits , pp. 465-466, 469. 6 Alan M. Bateman, Economic Mineral Deposits (London, 1949) pp. 244, 274; Waldemar Lindgren, Mineral Deposits (New York and London, 1933) pp. 825-827; Modesto Bargalló, La amalgamación de los minerales de plata en Hispano-américa colonial (México...

... production declined accordingly. 10 The receipt of large shipments in 1803-1805 reversed the trend, but production again declined in 1806-1807, following the viceroy’s decision to prohibit the traditional system of supplying mercury to miners on credit, with the dual purpose of conserving supplies...

..., African slaves, and other commodities and services. Centuries later, the mining of industrial minerals in Latin America provided raw materials important in the industrialization process. Within the region, mining launched boomtowns in isolated areas, massive migrations (forced and voluntary), ancillary...