Silver : transformational matter /
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. Sil...
| Uniform Title: | Silver (Hills) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy ;
259. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : forging silver connections / Helen Hills
- Part I : Silver : mining, indigenous knowledge, and colonialism
- 1 : Gold, silver, power, and abuse : the incorporation and erasure of indigenous knowledges in Spanish colonial metalwork / Allison Margaret Bigelow
- 2 : The Atocha's silver ca.1622 : ingots, aquillas, and the intersection of values / Thomas B. F. Cummins
- 3 : Flowing silver and ephemeral cities : working the ruins of colonial silver mines / Maggie Bolton
- Part II : Silver and the moon
- 4 : Silver, the lunar metal / Spike Bucklow
- 5 : How the world shines silver in the moonlight / Tim Ingold
- Part III : Silver profits : trade, trust, and trickery
- 6 : : Between early modern technology and moral agenda : silver counterfeiting and assaying in sixteenth-century Europe/ Sergius Kodera
- 7 : Mutant money : the globe-trotting career of seventeenth-century silver cash / Kris Lane
- Part IV : Exquisite effects
- 8 : : Fidda (silver) : on the active life of matter/ Avinoam Shalem
- 9 : Weaving silver: brilliance and sheen in colonial Andean textiles / Elena Phipps
- 10 : Adam van Vianen and ghosts of silver in the late-Renaissance world / Richard Checketts.