Pandemic in Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis by Kris E. Lane
Pandemic in Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis
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Kris E. Lane
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Pandemic in Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis

Kris E. Lane

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In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city's residents. Vic...

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