Silver, Sword, and Stone
Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
Simon & Schuster,
2019
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From SILVER, SWORD, AND STONE: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Marie Arana. Copyright © 2019 by Marie Arana. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
ISBN: 9781501104244
Pages: 496
ISBN: 9781501104244
Pages: 496
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Journalist and historian Marie Arana embeds you with Spanish conquistadors who searched for silver and gold in the Americas – a quest that spurred mass slaughter and enslavement. Today, international companies and scrappy, long-suffering miners still seek precious metals in that soil. This search – and the exploitation and violence it wrought – informs Latin America’s identity. Arana anchors the region’s economy and politics in its majestic and tragic thousand-year history.
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About the Author
Marie Arana, also the author of Bolívar: American Liberator, is an editor, historian, journalist, critic and Literary Director of the Library of Congress.
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