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This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining and its monetary use in the early modern Atlantic World will also be considered. Contributors rely mainly on economic and economic history methodologies, complemented by geographical and cultural history approaches. The use of novel software applications as tools to explain economic-historical episodes is also detailed.

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining and its monetary use in the early modern Atlantic World will also be considered. Contributors rely mainly on economic and economic history methodologies, complemented by geographical and cultural history approaches. The use of novel software applications as tools to explain economic-historical episodes is also detailed.

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining and its monetary use in the early modern Atlantic World will also be considered. Contributors rely mainly on economic and economic history methodologies, complemented by geographical and cultural history approaches. The use of novel software applications as tools to explain economic-historical episodes is also detailed.

1492 traf die Expedition des Genuesen Christoph Kolumbus in der Karibik ein. Zahlreiche weitere europäische Unternehmungen sollten folgen. Welten prallten aufeinander und es entstand im Laufe der Zeit eine andere, neue Welt: Lateinamerika. Deren mehr als fünfhundertjährige Geschichte wird in vier großen Kapiteln behandelt. Sie umfassen die Zeit vom Eintreffen der Europäer bis zum Sieg der Engländer in Nordamerika, die Epoche von den aufgeklärten Reformen bis zur Konsolidierung der unabhängigen Staaten, die Periode vom Beginn der Industrialisierung bis zur Weltwirtschaftskrise und die Umwälzungen seit den 1930er Jahren bis zu den jüngsten Entwicklungen. Dabei werden die politischen Auseinandersetzungen, die wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen, die Herausbildung multipler Ethnizitäten und die Entstehung hybrider Kulturen nachgezeichnet. Der Wandel und die Kontinuität der Verknüpfungen Lateinamerikas mit anderen Weltregionen werden ebenso thematisiert. Daraus ergibt sich ein grundlegender Überblick und eine umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte einer vernetzten Welt im Wandel.