The Burden of Spanish Silver: the Impact on American Labor and Europe’s Economy

October 29, 2005

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Introduction

Stanley J. Stein, Princeton University
"Reflections on Contingency and Structure: Colonial Mexico, Silver, and the Metropole"

Jane Mangan, Davidson College
"'The Power of Silver' in a Colonial City: Social Hierarchy and Daily Life in the Villa Imperial de Potosí"

Peter Bakewell, Southern Methodist University
"Labor and Technology in Spanish Colonial Mining"

Mauricio Drelichman, University of British Columbia
"The Curse of Moctezuma: American Silver and the De-industrialization of Spain"

Richard Salvucci, Trinity University
"1829 and All That: Great Britain, Mexico and Silver Reconsidered"