ART: Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, T. Bartoletti (Comparative Studies in Society and History)
Abstract
The rumors of Brazil’s mineral riches reaching London and Vienna in the first half of the nineteenth century, started by enslaved Africans mining clandestinely in unexplored regions and later through geological surveys by mining engineers from the Habsburg Empire, prompted aspirations to wealth which circulated fluidly in the transatlantic context.
