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024 7 _a10.7560/770003
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781477304686
035 _a(DE-B1597)588428
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050 4 _aHD9536.M44
_b.R363 1972
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082 0 4 _a338.27421
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRandall, Robert W.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aReal del Monte :
_bA British Silver Mining Venture in Mexico /
_cRobert W. Randall.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1972
300 _a1 online resource (276 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aLLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tMAPS --
_tTABLES --
_tPREFACE --
_tA NOTE ON SPANISH WORDS AND ON WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND CURRENCY --
_tABBREVIATIONS --
_t1. Introduction --
_t2. Formation in London --
_t3. Establishment in Mexico --
_t4. Management and Finance --
_t5. Mining Operations --
_t6. Milling Operations --
_t7. Labor --
_t8. Supplies --
_t9. Real del Monte and Mexico --
_t10. Dissolution --
_tAPPENDIX A Contract between the Third Count of Regla and the British Real del Monte Company for the Working of the Regla Mines in Mexico, 1 July 1824 --
_tAPPENDIX B Regulations Drawn up by the British Real del Monte Company for the Underground Working of Its Mines, with Respect to the Partido and the Obligations of the Miners, 1 September 1827 --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES --
_tSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aTo speak of mining in newly independent Mexico is to speak of silver. And silver, historically abundant in the Real del Monte–Pachuca district, was the object of the Company of Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte. Organized in response to a plea by Pedro Romero de Terreros for help in rehabilitating his famous family’s once-rich properties, the English Real del Monte was led by men convinced that the application of English capital, management practices, and technology to those ruined mines and mills would reap them a profit and would revitalize the new nation’s most promising industry. The adventurers were to be disappointed. The story of the English company is one of financial disaster: the loss of more than $5 million between its beginning in 1824 and its dissolution in 1849. Yet this failure was ironic, for upon the foundations of the English company was built a modern concern that yielded great rewards to Mexican and American successors to the hapless Englishmen. A full account of a single risky venture, this inquiry is a microcosm of early foreign economic penetration into the Mexican mining industry. It offers specific solutions to poorly understood historical problems concerning the wave of capital that flowed from Great Britain into Latin America upon the disruption of the Spanish Empire, problems hitherto treated only in generalizations.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aCompany of Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte.
650 7 _aHISTORY / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/770003
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477304686
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