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Ian Blanchard, Russia's ‘Age of Silver’: Precious-Metal Production and Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century (London and New York: Routledge, 1989), pp. xvi + 431, £45.00. - Pedro Pérez Herrero, Plata y libranzas: la articulación comercial del México borbónico (México: El Colegio de México, 1988), pp. 362. - Rose Marie Buechler, Potosí y el ‘Renacimiento’ Borbónico 1776–1810: gobierno, minería y sociedad (2 vols, La Paz: Biblioteca Minera Boliviana, 1989), pp. 554.

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Ian Blanchard, Russia's ‘Age of Silver’: Precious-Metal Production and Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century (London and New York: Routledge, 1989), pp. xvi + 431, £45.00.
Pedro Pérez Herrero, Plata y libranzas: la articulación comercial del México borbónico (México: El Colegio de México, 1988), pp. 362.
Rose Marie Buechler, Potosí y el ‘Renacimiento’ Borbónico 1776–1810: gobierno, minería y sociedad (2 vols, La Paz: Biblioteca Minera Boliviana, 1989), pp. 554.

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D. A. Brading
D. A. Brading
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Faculty of History, Cambridge
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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 1991 , pp. 226 - 228
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2 See Brading, D. A. and Cross, Harry E., ‘Colonial Silver Mining: Mexico and Peru’, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 52 (1972), pp. 545–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Compare his estimates with Cross, Harry E., ‘South American bullion production and export 1550–1750’ in Richards, J. F. (ed.), Precious Metals in the Later Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N.C., 1983), pp. 397–424.Google Scholar

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