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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 December 2023
- ISBN 9780197267547
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 240x160x20 mm
- Weight 734 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 82 colour images 572
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Short description:
Silver: Transformational Matter presents essays by anthropologists, art historians, and historians which explore the history of silver, incorporating mining, trade, colonialism, and Indigenous expertise.
MoreLong description:
Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics ? philosophical, religious, material, telluric, economic, colonialist, social, cultural, and courtly ? that traversed and profoundly altered the world. Silver from the so-called 'New World' bankrolled and justified the Spanish monarchy in its landgrab, wars, and empire building in both the Americas and in Europe. The great mountain of fabulously rich silver, Cerro Ricco in Potosí, relentlessly exploited by the Spanish invaders from 1545, irrevocably changed power relations, empires, and entire social and environmental ecologies across the globe. Accelerating global commerce and the growth of capitalism, trade in silver intensified the accumulation of capital and uneven trade balances, and enhanced the wealth of northern Europe at the expense of the Global South, particularly of Latin America. This wealth helped jump start the Industrial Revolution a century later.
Silver: Transformational Matter draws together essays by leading anthropologists, art historians, and historians to rethink silver across diverse fields and bring into context mining, trade, the Spanish empire and colonialism, Indigenous expertise, high-end Islamic and European silver artifacts, philosophical and alchemical erudition, and the shimmer of silver in textiles and moonlight. The emphasis in this collection is on early modern silver (ca.1545-ca.1700), since that was the crux and highpoint of its economic, artistic, and colonialist triumph, but any notion of a homogeneous historical 'period' is strongly resisted. Time and place were splintered by silver, as well as brought into relation by it.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction: Forging Silver Connections
Part I: Silver: Mining, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonialism
Gold, Silver, Power, and Abuse: 'The Incorporation and Erasure of Indigenous Knowledges in Spanish Colonial Metalwork'
The Atocha's Silver ca.1622: Ingots, Aquillas, and the Intersection of Values
Flowing Silver and Ephemeral Cities: Working the Ruins of Colonial Silver Mines
Part II: Silver and the Moon
Silver, the Lunar Metal
How the World Shines Silver in the Moonlight
Part III: Silver Profits: Trade, Trust, and Trickery
Between Early Modern Technology and Moral Agenda: Silver Counterfeiting and Assaying in Sixteenth-century Europe
Mutant Money: The Globe-trotting Career of Seventeenth-century Silver Cash
Part IV: Exquisite Effects
Fidda (Silver): On the Active Life of Matter
Weaving Silver: Brilliance and Sheen in Colonial Andean Textiles
Adam van Vianen and Ghosts of Silver in the Late-Renaissance World
Index
Silver: Transformational Matter
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