Mercury (not always rising) and the social economy of nineteenth-century Peru
This study focuses on the Peruvian mining industry of mercury or azogue in the nineteenth century.Mercury was a crucial component for Andean and Mexican silver mining during colonialtimes and still in the first century of Republican Peru. However, it was not the booming industrythat occurred at the...
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| Language: | English |
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
2010-03-01
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| Series: | Economía |
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/economia/article/view/883 |