Coercion and Market: Silver Mining in Colonial Potosi, 1692-1826 Book

	Preface
1	The Resurgence of Silver Production	1
	Silver Production in Potosi	1
	European Demand	5
2	The 1730s	10
	The Potosi Mita	15
	Forced Labor and Seasonal Migration	15
	The Mita in the Colonial System	17
	The "Numbers" of the Mita	24
	The "Arrangement" of the Mita	36
	Mita Rent and Profitability	47
	The Weight of Exploitation	52
	Exemptions and Commutations, Caciques and Enteradores	62
3	Minga and Kajcha	73
	Coercion and Market	73
	The Origins of the Free Labor Force in Potosi	74
	The Mingas of the Eighteenth Century	77
	From Wage Supplement to Production as Collective Enterprise	85
	Kajchas in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century	95
	The "Commotion" of 1751	98
	Provocation and Repression	102
	Kajcha Activities until the End of the Colonial Period	107
4	Credit, Rent, and Profit	115
	European Demand, American Transformations, and the Growth in Silver Production	115
	Credit and State Finances in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century	117
	The Azogueros' Company and the Monopoly of Silver Exchange	121
	Mercantile Capital and Mining Property	126
	The Separation between Ownership and Management in the Mining Industry	131
	The Inflation of Rents	139
	Peninsular Immigration and Mining Adventures	143
	Rent and the Intensification of Mita Labor	153
	Capital, Rent, and Profit	159
	Credit	161
	Ingenios without Mita Labor	164
5	Reform and Crisis	167
	Mining in Potosi in the Context of the Bourbon Reforms	167
	Intendant Manrique's Reform Attempt	169
	The "Reform Plans" of 1790	179
	From the Failure of the Nordenflicht Mission to the Codigo Carolino	189
	The Opposition of the Absentee Owners	195
	The "New Mita" and the Rejection of the Codigo Carolino	200
	Years of Crisis: Geology, Mercury, and Credit	206
	Years of Crisis: Regional Interests and the Mita	211
	Years of Crisis: Dearth, Famine, and Epidemics	216
	Epilogue and Conclusions	221
	The Independence War and Potosi	221
	The English in Potosi	223
	By Way of Conclusion: Mining in New Spain and Potosi during the Eighteenth Century	231
	Notes	237
	Select Sources and Bibliography	295
	Index	319
	About the Author and the Book	332