Title: Mercury, mining, and empire
Description: "On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven tale of what colonial exploitation of indigenous peoples and resources left in its wake. It is a socio-ecological history that explores the toxic interrelationships between mercury and silver production, urban environments, and the people who lived and worked in them. Nicholas A. Robins tells the story of how native peoples in the region were conscripted into the noxious ranks of foot soldiers of proto-globalism, and how their fate, and that of their communities, was - and still is - chained to it."--pub. desc.
Subjects: Silver mines and mining, Environmental degradation, History, Mercury mines and mining, Treatment of Indians, Bolivia, history, Peru, history, Indians, treatment of, Health aspects, Environmental aspects, Mining, Silver, Environmental Exposure, Adverse effects, History, 17th Century, South American Indians, Ethnology, Mercury, Mercury Poisoning
Places: Bolivia, Potosí (Dept.), Peru, Huancavelica