Nicholas A Robins: 2 books
Of Love and Loathing
Marital Life, Strife, and Intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750–1825
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The Bourbon Crown depended on the patriarchal, caste-based social system on which its colonial enterprise was built to maintain control over a vast...
Mercury, Mining, and Empire
The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
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...