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Basques and Vicunas at the Mouth of Hell
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Basques and Vicunas at the Mouth of Hell

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In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of PotosI, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy's blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against nearly a dozen other nations known collectively as VicuNas. At stake were the world's richest silver mines, a means to wealth and power in the Americas, Europe, and beyond.

As mines flooded and Indigenous workers died or fled, the city descended into a maelstrom of swordfights, gun battles, ambushes, sniper attacks, and summary executions. Though its roots were economic, the Basque-VicuNa conflict strained the sinews of Habsburg global governance even as it exposed festering local tensions, only some of which were unique to PotosI.

This rich collection of original sources, all of them archival documents housed in Bolivia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, consists of contemporary eyewitness accounts from several perspectives, allowing readers to play historian. All sources have been expertly translated and carefully annotated in a manner that will engage students and scholars alike. Basques and VicuNas at the Mouth of Hell includes an extensive introduction, seven vital documents in translation, and appendices on everyday life in 1620s PotosI and on the historiography of this watershed episode of colonial violence.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Country
United States
Date
7 November 2024
Pages
472
ISBN
9781647791384

In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of PotosI, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy's blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against nearly a dozen other nations known collectively as VicuNas. At stake were the world's richest silver mines, a means to wealth and power in the Americas, Europe, and beyond.

As mines flooded and Indigenous workers died or fled, the city descended into a maelstrom of swordfights, gun battles, ambushes, sniper attacks, and summary executions. Though its roots were economic, the Basque-VicuNa conflict strained the sinews of Habsburg global governance even as it exposed festering local tensions, only some of which were unique to PotosI.

This rich collection of original sources, all of them archival documents housed in Bolivia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, consists of contemporary eyewitness accounts from several perspectives, allowing readers to play historian. All sources have been expertly translated and carefully annotated in a manner that will engage students and scholars alike. Basques and VicuNas at the Mouth of Hell includes an extensive introduction, seven vital documents in translation, and appendices on everyday life in 1620s PotosI and on the historiography of this watershed episode of colonial violence.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Country
United States
Date
7 November 2024
Pages
472
ISBN
9781647791384