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Paperback Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World Volume 27 Book

ISBN: 0520383354

ISBN13: 9780520383357

Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World Volume 27

(Part of the California World History Library Series)

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"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potos? as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."--The New York Review of Books

In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potos? instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The...

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