Mining Language
Subtitle: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser; Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser
Publisher: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9781469654409
Subjects: Mineral industries; Language; History; Mines and mineral resources; Language and culture; Indians; Influence on Spanish; Influence on Portuguese; African languages
Description: Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain's northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building upon works that have narrated this global history of American mining in economic and labor terms, Mining language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials. This language-centric focus enables Allison Bigelow to document the crucial intellectual contributions Indigenous and African miners made to the very engine of European colonialism"--
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half Title; title: Title; title: Copyright; title: Dedication; title: Contents; title: Preface: Recreating the Archive; title: Acknowledgments; title: List of Illustrations; title: Introduction: The Meaning of Metals; title: GOLD; title: 1. Gathering Indigenous Knowledges; title: 2. Visual Languages of Space and Place; title: 3. Seasons of Gold; title: IRON; title: 4. Iron, Indios, and Iberian Science in Dialogue; title: 5. Early Modern Dialogues and Colonial Knowledges; title: COPPER; title: 6. Narrative Circuits of New World Copper; title: 7. Literary Forms, Imperial Projections, and the Limits of Possibility in Copper Colonies; title: SILVER; title: 8. Amalgamating Knowledge, Translating Empire; title: 9. Color and Casta in the Andean Silver Industry; title: 10. The Colonial Science of Like and Unlike; title: Hacia una conclusión: Comparing Metals, Materials, and Ideas across Archives; title: Appendix 1. Chapters in d'Orta, Clusius, Fragoso, and Briganti; title: Appendix 2. Mining Terminology in Barba, García de Llanos, González Holguín, Bertonio, Montagu, Lange, Hautin de Villars, and Lenglet du Fresnoy; title: Appendix 3. Official Weights and Measures; title: Index; title: A; title: B; title: C; title: D; title: E; title: F; title: G; title: H; title: I; title: J; title: K; title: L; title: M; title: N; title: O; title: P; title: Q; title: R; title: S; title: T; title: U; title: V; title: W; title: X; title: Y; title: Z