Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-century Potosí

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Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-century Potosí is written by Peter John Bakewell and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0870743864 (ISBN 10) and 9780870743863 (ISBN 13).

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.