Potosi (today Bolivia) was the major supplier for the Spanish Empire and for the world and still nowadays, boasts the … world's single-richest silver deposit. This book explores the political economy of silver production and circulation … knowledge in the first section; environmental history and labor in the second section; silver flows, the heterogeneous world of …

between a legal and an illegal world, actions that are illegal but perceived as legitimate or the other way around, and a gray …