
Mining Maps and Enlightenment in the Andes
Heidi V. Scott(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 4. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
118 pages
978-90-04-75070-8 (ISBN)
Description
Mining loomed large in colonial Andean society. In the eighteenth century, projects to reform existing mines and establish new ones were increasingly accompanied and shaped by mapping. Numerous mining maps from the colonial Andes are preserved in archival collections. This study examines the roles that these frequently overlooked maps played in the exploitation of the underground. How were they made and used, and what effects did they have? What do these maps reveal about colonial understandings of the subterranean? How might they enrich understandings of the Spanish American Enlightenment? These questions are explored through the prism of small stories about the mapping of mining sites in late colonial Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
34 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
192 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-75070-8 (9789004750708)
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Heidi V. Scott, Ph.D. (2002), Cambridge University, is a historian of the colonial Andes and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She publishes widely on themes that include colonialism and landscape, mapping, mining, and the subterranean in Andean contexts.