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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 May 1983
... less than the abolition of the Potosí mita. 1 His decision to destroy the institution that many of his contemporaries considered the very foundation of the royal treasury in Peru came after three exhausting years of effort on his part to reform the system. The origins of Lemos’s proposal and its...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1960) 40 (2): 305.
Published: 01 May 1960
...Charles W. Arnade La mita de Potosí en 1795 . By Rene-Moreno Gabriel . Con una adición de 7 documentos inéditos . Compiled by Ovando-Sanz Guillermo . Potosí , 1959 . Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Tomás Frías . Serie III: Minería, Mita. Cuaderno no. 1...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (3): 482–483.
Published: 01 August 1976
...John Leddy Phelan Encomienda y mita en Nueva Granada . By Rivera Julian B. Ruíz . Seville , 1975 . Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla . Tables. Appendix. Index . Pp. xxix , 208 . Paper . 800 pesetas . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Several...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (1): 152–154.
Published: 01 February 2025
...James Almeida This monograph represents an important contribution to colonial Latin American studies, inverting the traditional focus on mita laborers to think about the sending communities and displacing Potosí itself to center the Indigenous peoples who called the area home long before...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (3): 599–600.
Published: 01 August 1986
...A. J. Bauer The Potosí Mita, 1573-1700: Compulsory Indian Labor in the Andes . By Cole Jeffrey A. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1985 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 206 . Cloth. $35.00 . Copyright 1986 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1960) 40 (2): 305.
Published: 01 May 1960
...Charles W. Arnade La “mita” de Potosí . By Rodas Alberto Crespo . Potosí , [ 1959 ], Universidad Tomás Frías , Departamento de Cultura . 20 pp. Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ...
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in Working Silver for the World: Mining Labor and Popular Economy in Colonial Potosí
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 1. The mita system in 1577–1578. This labor system drafted from 139 villages in 16 provinces. Men were distributed in three shifts. In each turn, they were assigned one week of work and two weeks of rest. This can be seen through the months from January to June. In the months from July
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 784–785.
Published: 01 August 2001
... . xxxvi , 475 pp. Paper . Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Potosí’s mita continues to intrigue students of colonial Andean history. Peter Bakewell, Jeffrey Cole, and Enrique Tandeter analyzed how the system of forced labor affected the mining economy of Upper Peru. Other scholars...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 193–222.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Figure 1. The mita system in 1577–1578. This labor system drafted from 139 villages in 16 provinces. Men were distributed in three shifts. In each turn, they were assigned one week of work and two weeks of rest. This can be seen through the months from January to June. In the months from July...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (2): 341–342.
Published: 01 May 1998
... labor (mita) and wage labor. With the introduction of the amalgamation process, however, silver production in Upper Peru began to require a larger labor force, which resulted in increased economic opportunities for members of non-mita communities. As a result, many workers abandoned their reducciones...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 405–430.
Published: 01 August 1987
... mining, while most historians concur that in Upper Peru’s most important mines, at Potosí, the government-organized labor draft known as the mita provided a significant portion of the work force throughout the colonial period. 2 Another difference is that during the eighteenth century owners in many...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 725–728.
Published: 01 November 1979
... its full extension. Sánchez-Albornoz deals with Upper Peru, now Bolivia. Heraclio Bonilla, in the preface, justifies succinctly that social phenomena in the Andean area transcend “artificial national frontiers.” The colonial requirement of tribute and mita service for the mines of Potosí...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 338–340.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., to Huancavelica's geological formation and pre-Hispanic history and forward, in the sixth chapter, to the locale's nineteenth- and twentieth-century neglect. The book's second chapter explains how Viceroy Francisco de Toledo's adaptation of the Incas' turn labor system, the mita , drew unfree native Andean...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 763.
Published: 01 November 1989
... in the mita to Potosí. Although a useful synthesis, Clara López Beltrán’s study makes no major historiographic contribution when viewed within the context of recent advances in the literature. The scope of the book is largely limited to a description of the decline of silver production at Potosí, based...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (2): 280–281.
Published: 01 May 1982
...—for example, Venezuela, Chile, and even Ecuador after independence—Potosí and Huancavelica are the main objects of attention. This, of course, is because they were served by mitas, a system of labor that generated a steady flow of learned informes . Most authors accepted the system, while praising Toledo...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (2): 347–348.
Published: 01 May 1975
... from the sixteen altiplano provinces that were subject to the Potosí mita. The questions were concerned with certain abuses practiced by the curacas and corregidores de indios in the communities from which the witnesses came. The transcript of the testimony occupies the second half of the book...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (4): 545–579.
Published: 01 November 1972
... mining has attracted so much attention as its labor system. Since the denunciations of Las Casas, the royal levy of tributary service, called repartimiento in Mexico and mita in Peru, has been associated with the great question of the decline in Indian population. Here too the difference between...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 275–276.
Published: 01 May 1995
... of pesos of silver. He also links the revival to three nearly simultaneous actions of the Spanish colonial government between 1725 and 1732. The crown reaffirmed the mita obligations of thousands of Indians from the provinces surrounding Potosí, reduced taxes (the Royal Fifth dropped to a Royal Tenth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (2): 341–342.
Published: 01 May 1975
... on the aboriginal Indians of the region, Spanish settlement, the effect on settlement and on political development of the civil wars of Peru, geography, agriculture, mining, encomienda, mita, commerce, the foundation of the Audiencia of Charcas, political relations between Charcas and Lima, and much more. The book...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (2): 371–372.
Published: 01 May 2002
... structures of the viceroyalty. Mining maintained its preponderant role in the colonial Andean economy. Interestingly, the prince of Santo Buono (viceroy 1716–20) had attempted the radical reform of closing the Huancavelica mercury mines and abolishing the mita. Castelfuerte tried nothing as extreme and even...
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