Metallurgy, mining, and English colonization in the Americas, 1550-1624

• Main Author: Amundsen, Karin Alana
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL) 2019
• Subjects: History; metallurgy; metallurgical; mining; mines; alchemy; colonization; colonies; Atlantic; England; Ireland; North America; Virginia; Guiana; Newfoundland; Martin Frobisher; Sir Walter Ralegh; Edward Hayes; Richard Hakluyt; Thomas Harriot; gold; copper; silver; brass; iron; Falling Creek; transmutation; Ophir; El Dorado; political economy; bullionism; exploration; debasement; currency; coinage; bimetallism; trade; commerce; munitions; Powhatan; Algonquian; Lawrence Keymis; Joachim Gans; Burchard Kranich; Jonas Schutz; Michael Lok; Cathay Company; Virginia Company; Sir Humphrey Gilbert; John Dee; Sir Thomas Smith; Sir Richard Martyn; Arctic; Indian; Hayes; Dee; Martyn
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25549/usctheses-c40-386207; https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF165P2DK

This dissertation considers metallurgy’s central role in defining English projects in the Atlantic World before 1624 and the alchemical worldview that shaped these ventures. It challenges the intractable narrative conflating mining with plunder, which reduces the quest for precious metals to venture...