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Hardcover: 364 pages

Publisher: BRILL (24 Sept. 2010)

Language: English

 

Using tax and mintage records, this book provides a district-by-district annual accounting of the gold and silver officially produced and minted in colonial Latin America, placing that output within the context of the emerging early-modern world economy.

About the Author

John J.TePaske, Ph.D. (1959) in History, Duke University, was a Professor of Latin American History at Duke University. He published extensively on the economic and financial history of Spain’s colonial American empire. He died in 2007. Kendall W. Brown, Ph.D. (1979) in History, Duke University, is a Professor of Latin American History at Brigham Young University. He has published extensively on the economic history of colonial Spanish America.