Mining Language Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World |
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| Author:
| Bigelow, Allison Margaret |
| Series title: | Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4696-5438-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2020 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $42.50 |
Book Description:
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Building on works that have narrated the global history of American mining in economic and labour terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials.
Building on works that have narrated the global history of American mining in economic and labour terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials.