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Bigelow, Allison Margaret. Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World. Omohundro Institute of Early American History Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Presents the transatlantic transfer of knowledge and language of mining developed in the 16th and 17th centuries from the Americas that contributed to European colonization of the New World. This study describes how the impurity of ores and metals was employed to describe the religious, racial, and gender markers of the mine and metalworkers. Bigelow uncovers ways in which Indigenous and African metallurgists aided or resisted imperial mining endeavors.
