“This lofty mountain of silver could conquer the whole world”: Potosí and the political ecology of underdevelopment, 1545-1800[1]

By the 1570’s, Potosí, and its silver, had become the hub of acommodity revolution that reorganized Peru’s peoples and landscapes to serve capital and empire. This was a decisive moment in the world ecological revolution of the long seventeenth century. Primitive accumulation in Peru was particularl...

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Autor principal:	Jason Moore
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Publicado:	Editura ASE Bucuresti 2010
Materias:	World-systems analysis Environmental history Political ecology Capitalism as world-ecology Political economy Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:837181ef18de44378f463e9ac93c0e542021-12-02T01:26:04Z“This lofty mountain of silver could conquer the whole world”: Potosí and the political ecology of underdevelopment, 1545-1800[1]1843-22981844-8208https://doaj.org/article/837181ef18de44378f463e9ac93c0e542010-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/53.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/1843-2298https://doaj.org/toc/1844-8208By the 1570’s, Potosí, and its silver, had become the hub of acommodity revolution that reorganized Peru’s peoples and landscapes to serve capital and empire. This was a decisive moment in the world ecological revolution of the long seventeenth century. Primitive accumulation in Peru was particularly successful: the mita’s spatial program enabled the colonial state to marshal a huge supply of low-cost and tractable labor in the midst of sustained demographic contraction. The relatively centralized character of Peru’s mining frontier facilitated imperial control in a way the more dispersedsilver frontiers of New Spain did not. Historical capitalism has sustained itself on the basis of exploiting, and thereby undermining, a vast web of socio-ecological relations. As may be observed in colonial Peru, the commodity frontier strategy effected both the destruction and creation of premodern socio-ecological arrangements.Jason MooreEditura ASE BucurestiarticleWorld-systems analysisEnvironmental historyPolitical ecologyCapitalism as world-ecologyPolitical economyEconomics as a scienceHB71-74DEENFRJournal of Philosophical Economics, Vol IV, Iss 1, Pp 58-103 (2010)
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description	By the 1570’s, Potosí, and its silver, had become the hub of acommodity revolution that reorganized Peru’s peoples and landscapes to serve capital and empire. This was a decisive moment in the world ecological revolution of the long seventeenth century. Primitive accumulation in Peru was particularly successful: the mita’s spatial program enabled the colonial state to marshal a huge supply of low-cost and tractable labor in the midst of sustained demographic contraction. The relatively centralized character of Peru’s mining frontier facilitated imperial control in a way the more dispersedsilver frontiers of New Spain did not. Historical capitalism has sustained itself on the basis of exploiting, and thereby undermining, a vast web of socio-ecological relations. As may be observed in colonial Peru, the commodity frontier strategy effected both the destruction and creation of premodern socio-ecological arrangements.
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title	“This lofty mountain of silver could conquer the whole world”: Potosí and the political ecology of underdevelopment, 1545-1800[1]
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“This lofty mountain of silver could conquer the whole world”: Potosí and the political ecology of underdevelopment, 1545-1800[1]

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