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Mining Maps and Enlightenment in the Andes
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Mining loomed large in colonial Andean society. In the eighteenth century, projects to reform existing mines and establish new ones were increasingly accompanied and shaped by mapping. Numerous mining maps from the colonial Andes are preserved in archival collections. This study examines the roles that these frequently overlooked maps played in the exploitation of the underground. How were they made and used, and what effects did they have? What do these maps reveal about colonial understandings of the subterranean? How might they enrich understandings of the Spanish American Enlightenment? These questions are explored through the prism of small stories about the mapping of mining sites in late colonial Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador.
Heidi V. Scott, Ph.D. (2002), Cambridge University, is a historian of the colonial Andes and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She publishes widely on themes that include colonialism and landscape, mapping, mining, and the subterranean in Andean contexts.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
1 What Is a Mining Map?
2 Mining Maps, Historical Scholarship, and Enlightenment
3 Archival Sources and Connections
1 Mapping Potosí’s Cerro Rico
1 Mapping Lessons from Afar
2 Rubín de Celis Remaps the Cerro Rico
3 A “Useless” Adit and a New Remapping
4 A Dangerous Map
5 Summary
2 The Search for Mercury
1 A “Universal Incubator” of Mercury
2 Mapping a Mercury Mine into Existence
3 What’s in a Name? Mapping Azogues
4 Summary
3 Mining Maps on the Move
1 Proyectismo and Mining in Late Enlightenment Peru
2 Innovation and Instruction in Gaspar Sabugo’s Mining Map
3 Traveling Images in the Mining Milieu
4 Summary
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Figures
Introduction
1 What Is a Mining Map?
2 Mining Maps, Historical Scholarship, and Enlightenment
3 Archival Sources and Connections
1 Mapping Potosí’s Cerro Rico
1 Mapping Lessons from Afar
2 Rubín de Celis Remaps the Cerro Rico
3 A “Useless” Adit and a New Remapping
4 A Dangerous Map
5 Summary
2 The Search for Mercury
1 A “Universal Incubator” of Mercury
2 Mapping a Mercury Mine into Existence
3 What’s in a Name? Mapping Azogues
4 Summary
3 Mining Maps on the Move
1 Proyectismo and Mining in Late Enlightenment Peru
2 Innovation and Instruction in Gaspar Sabugo’s Mining Map
3 Traveling Images in the Mining Milieu
4 Summary
Conclusion
Bibliography
Scholars; postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students; academic institutes and libraries.
Map studies; historical geography; colonial Latin American and Andean history; colonial history; mining history; eighteenth-century studies.
Map studies; historical geography; colonial Latin American and Andean history; colonial history; mining history; eighteenth-century studies.