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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
[2020]
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 487-495 |
IxTheo 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) |