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The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro : Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town.
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ISBN: 9798890862419 1469671123 Year: 2022 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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"This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first operated under Spanish rule, then by North American industry, and today in the post-NAFTA world of transnational capitalism. The depletion of a mine did not mark the end of its life, it turns out"--


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Un exemple d'acculturation religieuse : la mission jésuite en Araucanie (Chili) au XVIIe siècle

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A nation upon the Ocean Sea : Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640
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ISBN: 0195175700 0195175697 9780195175707 9780195175691 0190291907 9786611156558 0198039115 1281156558 1429486988 0199872066 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews , Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries as the Portuguese Nation. By the early seventeenth century, this nation without a state had created a remarkable trading network that spanned the Atlantic, reached into the Indian Ocean and Asia, and generated millions of pesos that were use

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