How Long to Read Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia

How Long Does it Take to Read Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia by Ann Twinam

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The inhabitants of the department of Antioquía in north-central Colombia have played a unique role in that country's economic history. During the colonial period Antioqueño placer miners supplied a substantial portion of New Granada's gold exports. Their nineteenth-century descendants pioneered investments in lode mining, colonization, international commerce, banking, stock raising, tobacco, and coffee. In the twentieth century, Antioqueños initiated the industrialization of the regional capital, Medellín. Many theories have been set forth to account for the special energy and initiative of Antioqueños. They range from ethnic and psychological interpretations (Antioqueños are descended from Jews or Basques; they are driven to succeed because of status deprivation) to historical explanations that emphasize their geographic isolation, mining heritage, or the coffee-export economy. In Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia, Ann Twinam critiques these theories and sets forth her own revisionist interpretation of Antioqueño enterprise. Rather than emphasize the alien or deviant in Antioqueño psychology or culture, Twinam re-creates the region's late colonial economic and social structure and attributes the origins of Antioqueño enterprise to a particular mix of human and natural resources that directed the region's development toward capital accumulation and reinvestment. Although the existing limitations of their colonial environment may have forced Antioqueños along enterprising pathways initially, the continuation of Antioqueño investments to the present day suggests that their adaptation to a specific economic reality became a way of life transcending the historical conditions that created it.

How long is Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia?

Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia by Ann Twinam is 206 pages long, and a total of 52,736 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia aloud.

What Reading Level is Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia?

Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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