In Santa Barbara's Legacy: An Environmental History of Huancavelica, Peru, Nicholas A. Robins presents the first comprehensive environmental history of a mercury producing region in Latin America, and one of the world's most mercury contaminated urban areas.
Author(s): Nicholas A. Robins
Series: Brill’s Series in the History of the Environment, 5
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 244
Santa Bárbara’s Legacy: An Environmental History of Huancavelica, Peru
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction
1 Huaca-villca: From Geological Formation to Spanish Conquest
2 The Pachacuti: Colonization, Catastrophe and the Rise of Mercury
3 “A Horrible Business”: The Mita
4 The Bourbon Era: Reform and Resentment
5 “They All Come to Die”: Mining, Mishaps and Mercurialism
6 Desuetude, Decay and Neglect: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Epilogue
Bibliography
Appendix
Table 1 Total mercury (Hg) in soil in mg/kg remedial investigation Huancavelica, Peru
Table 2 Total mercury in Earthen homes (dust, walls, floors, and vapor) remedial investigation Huancavelica, Peru
Table 3 Mercury, Arsenic and Lead in Huancavelica and area rock samples 2015 pilot study Huancavelica, Peru 2015 pilot study Huancavelica, Peru
Table 4 Food stock, water, and sediment sample results 2016 pilot study Huancavelica, Peru
Table 5 Residential vapor results 2015 pilot study Huancavelica, Peru
Table 6 Soil sample results using X-ray florescence 2016 field event Huancavelica, Peru
Table 7 Total mercury in fish tissue 2016 field event Huancavelica, Peru
Table 8 Residential sample results using X-ray fluorescence 2016 field event Huancavelica. Peru
Index
