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Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosi: The Life and Times of Antonio Lopez de Quiroga

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Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosi: The Life and Times of Antonio Lopez de Quiroga - Bakewell, P J, and Bakewell, Peter
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Displaying exemplary business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit in precapitalist times, Antonio Lopez de Quiroga became the largest silver refiner of the Spanish empire in the seventeenth century. Bakewell's study, first published in 1988, traces the emigrant Spaniard's life and career against the backdrop of Potosi, the great Andean mining center."

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Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosi: The Life and Times of Antonio Lopez de Quiroga 1995, Southern Methodist University Press

ISBN-13: 9780870743863

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