Back to the Silver Mine: Using Historical Empathy to Teach Potosí and the Mita

In an effort to promote historical empathy of history students, the author discusses the practice of the mita, the Spanish colonial forced-labor system imposed on its indigenous subjects in the viceroyalty of Peru, now located in Bolivia and Peru, specifically how it was used in the silver mining op...

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Main Author: Eaton, Dave (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. [2020]
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 487-495
RelBib Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBH Iberian Peninsula
KBR Latin America
ZC Politics in general
ZF Education
Further subjects:B HISTORICAL source material
B Potosi (Bolivia)
B Huancavelica (Peru)
B HISTORY education
B Silver mines & mining
B Empathy
B Colonial administration
B Peru (Viceroyalty)
B Spanish colonies
B Racism
B Mita (Labor)

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