Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosí The Life and Times of Antonio López de Quiroga by Peter Bakewell

Displaying exemplary business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit in precapitalist times, Antonio López de Quiroga became the largest silver refiner of the Spanish empire in the seventeenth century. Bakewell's study, first published in 1988, traces the emigrant Spaniard's life and career against the backdrop of Potosi, the great Andean mining center.

"This richly textured biography . . . brings a broad new dimension to our understanding of mining in colonial Hispanic America and many new insights into the society and economy of one of the most important cities in the world during the ancien regime."—John Jay Tepaske, American Historical Review

Professor of history at Emory University, PETER BAKEWELL is the author of numerous publications, including Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1564–1700 and Miners of the Red Mountain. He is currently writing a general history of Latin America.

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Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosí
ISBN 0-87074-386-4 paper $14.95s

6x9. 272 pp. 2 b&w photos. 3 b&w illus. 3 maps. Bib. Index.
Latin American History. Business History. Economics.

Publication Date: August 1995.

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