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Silver, Sword, and Stone
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Silver, Sword, and Stone

Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story

Simon & Schuster, 2019 更多详情


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Eye Opening
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Journalist and historian Marie Arana embeds you with Spanish conquistadors who searched for silver and gold in the Americas – a quest that spurred mass slaughter and enslavement. Today, international companies and scrappy, long-suffering miners still seek precious metals in that soil. This search – and the exploitation and violence it wrought – informs Latin America’s identity. Arana anchors the region’s economy and politics in its majestic and tragic thousand-year history.

Take-Aways

  • An extractive economy, the politics of violence and religion have shaped Latin American history.
  • In the early 1500s, Lord Inca Huayna Capacgrew more interested in gold and silver decorations, bringing a new age of precious metal production to the region.
  • Unlike Latin America’s indigenous peoples, the Spanish had an obsessive lust for precious metals and wealth.

About the Author

Marie Arana, also the author of Bolívar: American Liberator, is an editor, historian, journalist, critic and Literary Director of the Library of Congress.


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    J. M. 3 years ago
    Thanks i completely agree
    Politicians in Latin America continue to repeat the same process as the Spaniards

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