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A state of the proceedings of the convocation, or, parliament for the Stannaries of the county of Cornwall : held at Lestwithiel ... 28th day of August 1750, and at Helstone ... 20th of October following ... together with some observations
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Year: 1751 Publisher: London Printed for R. Baldwin

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Substance of a report on the laws and jurisdiction of the stannaries in Cornwall
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Year: 1835 Publisher: London Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman

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The plan of a work, entituled Mineralogia cornubiensis et leges stannariµ : or, (I) a general treatise upon minerals, mines, and mining ... also, (2) the history, laws, customs, and government of the stannaries ...
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Year: 1774 Publisher: Falmouth Printed for the author


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The devil and commodity fetishism in South America
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ISBN: 0807871338 146960423X 0807898414 9780807898413 9781469604237 9780807871331 9798893134551 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chapel Hill [N.C.] University of North Carolina Press

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In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. He links traditional narratives of the devil-pact, in which the soul is bartered for illusory or transitory power, with the way in which production in capitalist economies causes workers to become alienated from the com

We eat the mines and the mines eat us : dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines
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ISBN: 9780231080514 0231080506 0231080514 023104710X Year: 1993 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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