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Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosi: The Life and Times of Antonio Lopez De Quiroga

paperback – January 1, 1995
by Bakewell, Peter J.
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ISBN-13: 9780870743863 ISBN-10: 0870743864
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Brand: Southern Methodist University Press
Binding
paperback
Published
January 1, 1995
Weight
0.9 lbs
Dimensions
23.50×1.90×15.90 cm

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Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosi: The Life and Times of Antonio Lopez De Quiroga by Bakewell, Peter J.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780870743863.

Displaying exemplary business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit in precapitalist times, Antonio López de Quiroga became the largest silver refiner of the Spanish empire in the seventeenth century. Bakewells study, first published in 1988, traces the emigrant Spaniards life and career against the backdrop of Potosi, the great Andean mining center.