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Kris Lane[0] has excellent work on potosi Potosi - "the first global city" [1] Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World by Kris Lane[2] I've encountered
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Kris Lane[0] has excellent work on potosi
Potosi - "the first global city" [1]
Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World by Kris Lane[2]
I've encountered Kris's work during the pandemic; He released a book "Pandemic in Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis" [3] about the pandemic in 1719 which killed third of the city
Potosi as a silver hotspot had a coin mint, and of course it had a fraud[4]
https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/history/people/faculty-staff-name/kris-e-lane https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/history/people/faculty-staff-...
https://aeon.co/essays/potosi-the-mountain-of-silver-that-was-the-first-global-city https://aeon.co/essays/potosi-the-mountain-of-silver-that-wa...
https://www.amazon.com/Potosi-Changed-California-History-Library/dp/0520280849 https://www.amazon.com/Potosi-Changed-California-History-Lib...
https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09198-3.html https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09198-3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Potos%C3%AD_Mint_Fraud_of_1649 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Potos%C3%AD_Mint_Fraud_o...