For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read ab

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especiall

For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia Contemporánea de América Latina has been the most influential and widely read general history of

Twenty years of work went into the writing of this: the first book to cover the history of mines and mining in North and South America. The text is enlivened by

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especiall