# Silver "Thieves," Tin Barons, and Conquistadors, Vol. 1

By **Mary Van Buren**

- ISBN-13: 9780816556670
- Series: [Archaeology Of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions In The Americas](https://mybookbandits.com/series/archaeology-of-indigenous-colonial-interactions-in-the-americas)
- Publisher: University of Arizona Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 264
- Published: 31 Dec 2025

## About this book

The Spanish conquest of Peru was motivated by the quest for precious metals, a search that resulted in the discovery of massive silver deposits in what is now southern Bolivia. The enormous flow of specie into the world economy is usually attributed to the Spanish imposition of a forced labor system on the Indigenous p

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