Robins, Nicholas A., 1964-

Mercury, mining, and empire the human and ecological cost of colonial silver mining in the Andes / [electronic resource] : Nicholas A. Robins. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. - xiv, 298 p. : maps.

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