Mining Maps and Enlightenment in the Andes

Name: Mining Maps and Enlightenment in the Andes
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ISBN: 9789004750708

Heidi V. Scott

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English

Brill
04 June 2026

Historical maps & atlases; Mining industry; Geographical maps (specialist); Mining technology & engineering

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Map History

Mining loomed large in colonial Andean society. In the eighteenth century, projects to reform existing mines and establish new ones were increasingly accompanied and shaped by mapping. Numerous mining maps from the colonial Andes are preserved in archival collections. This study examines the roles that these frequently overlooked maps played in the exploitation of the underground. How were they made and used, and what effects did they have? What do these maps reveal about colonial understandings of the subterranean? How might they enrich understandings of the Spanish American Enlightenment? These questions are explored through the prism of small stories about the mapping of mining sites in late colonial Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador.

By: Heidi V. Scott
Imprint: Brill
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 235g
ISBN: 9789004750708
ISBN 10: 9004750703
Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Map History
Pages: 118
Publication Date: 04 June 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Heidi V. Scott, Ph.D. (2002), Cambridge University, is a historian of the colonial Andes and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She publishes widely on themes that include colonialism and landscape, mapping, mining, and the subterranean in Andean contexts.