Comment by user070223

Kris Lane[0] has excellent work on potosi

Potosi - "the first global city" [1] Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World by Kris Lane[2]

I've encountered Kris's work during the pandemic; He released a book "Pandemic in Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis" [3] about the pandemic in 1719 which killed third of the city

Potosi as a silver hotspot had a coin mint, and of course it had a fraud[4]

https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/history/people/faculty-staff-... https://aeon.co/essays/potosi-the-mountain-of-silver-that-wa... https://www.amazon.com/Potosi-Changed-California-History-Lib... https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09198-3.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Potos%C3%AD_Mint_Fraud_o...