Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí by Jane Mangan (2005) - Not Even Past
In only a few decades during the seventeenth century, the Spanish American colonial city of Potosí, in modern-day Bolivia, grew from a small settlement to a metropolis of almost 200,000. With twice the total population of all of Britain's North American colonies, Potosí became one of the largest cities in the Americas despite being at an elevation of over 13,000 feet.| Not Even Past
