Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World
American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain\'s northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers.
Building upon works that have narrated this global history of American Mining in economic and labor terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and sevent.
Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World
American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain\'s northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers