THE POTOSI MITA UNDER HAPSBURG ADMINISTRATION. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
The mita was a draft Indian labor system that Viceroy Francisco de Toledo developed in 1573 for the silver industry at Potos(')i (in colonial Upper Peru; current-day Bolivia). For a brief period the mita served, in combination with the introduction of amalgamation technology, stockpiles of prev...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1981
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8117982 |