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Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns
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Hardcover
Book cover for 9781477310502
 
from Univ of Texas Pr (December 13, 2016)
9781477310502 | details & prices | 280 pages | List price $90.00
About: Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosí, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed.
Paperback
Book cover for 9781477310977
 
from Univ of Texas Pr (December 13, 2016)
9781477310977 | details & prices | 280 pages | List price $29.95
About: Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosí, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed.