Allison Margaret Bigelow

Biographic Data

ID454474
NAMEAllison Margaret Bigelow
GIVEN NAMESAllison Margaret
FAMILY NAMEBigelow
SIGNATUREBIGELOW A M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Virginia
ORCID0000-0002-7898-1537
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World

    Allison Margaret BigelowARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2024

    On the back cover of Sara E. Johnson's phenomenal new work, Jennifer L. Morgan declares, “This is the book we have been waiting for.” That blurb is no exaggeration. In this beautifully written, brilliantly framed, painstakingly researched communal biography, Johnson makes critical interventions to Black studies, Atlantic history, and comparative literature. She does so by working across visual mediums and alphabetic languages (Dutch, English, Fre…

  • Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance

    Open AccessAllison Margaret BigelowARTICLESocial History of Medicine2023Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance Get access Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 353. $37.50. Pbk. ISBN 978-0-2268-2228-0. Allison Margaret Bigelow Allison Margaret Bigelow University of Virginia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Goog…

  • Knowledge Production and Forced Labor: The Intellectual Work and Worlds of Andean Mitayos in the Late Colonial Period

    Open AccessAllison Margaret BigelowARTICLERevista Mundos do Trabalho2023

    This article, which focuses on silver mining in the colonial Andes, attempts to bring silo-ed conversations in the history of science and labor history into a shared dialogue. In so doing, it offers a way to reassess the traditional historiographic consensus that independent wage laborers were "high skilled" and forced laborers were "low skilled." Through linguistic analysis and legal case studies, it shows that miners often crossed back and fort…

  • Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700-1840 by Mark Milton Chambers

    Allison Margaret Bigelow, Allison BigelowARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2022

    Reviewed by: Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840 by Mark Milton Chambers Allison Bigelow Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840. By Mark Milton Chambers. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2021. 272 pages. Cloth, pdf. If gold and silver metals are traditionally considered the economic engines that drove early modern European empires, and …

  • Ingenios and ingenuity: Rethinking Indigenous histories of silver in the colonial Andean mining industry

    Allison Margaret Bigelow, P CruzARTICLEColonial Latin American Review2021Cited by: 2References: 14

    Silver amalgamation technologies revolutionized the production of precious metals in the colonial Andes and throughout Latin America, changing the region and the global economy in ways that are almost impossible to fully comprehend even today. We know a great deal about the productive capacity of Potosí's amalgamation refineries (ingenios), but little of other aspects of workers' experiences within those walled environments. Most archaeological s…

  • Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization

    Allison Margaret Bigelow, Allison BigelowARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2021

    Book Review| February 01 2021 Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization. Edited by del Valle, Ivonne, More, Anna, and O'toole, Rachel Sarah. Hispanic Issues. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2019. Figure. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. x, 356 pp. Paper, $34.95. Allison Bigelow Allison Bigelow University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic Ame…

  • Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of MayaCosmovisión

    Rafael C Alvarado, Aldo Ismael Barriente et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory2021Cited by: 1References: 25

    The Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript-itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from being destroyed by colonial officials or Inquisitional authorities, the original K'iche' authors of the Pop…

  • Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World

    Allison Margaret BigelowBOOKMining Language2020

    Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain's northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building upon works that have narrated this global history of American mining in economic and labor terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that mine…

  • Introduction to Latin American Studies and the Humanities: One Year Later

    Open AccessAllison Margaret Bigelow, Thomas Miller KlubockARTICLELatin American Research Review2019

    This essay introduces the three essays in this collection, “Latin American Studies and the Humanities: One Year Later.” This collection follows our first dossier, “Latin American Studies and the Humanities: Past, Present, Future,” which was published in September 2018 ( https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.521 ). The essays here—all written by historians—address current questions in humanistic research in Latin American and ethnic/area studies, includin…

  • Introduction to Latin American Studies and the Humanities: Past, Present, Future

    Open AccessAllison Margaret Bigelow, Thomas Miller KlubockARTICLELatin American Research Review2018

    This essay outlines the three articles in this dossier, “Latin American Studies and the Humanities: Past, Present, Future.” The authors, working in different disciplines, contribute to debates about how to reconceptualize area studies. Each article considers how area studies might be enriched by considering different spatial scales and incorporating methodologies drawn from ethnic studies disciplines. Our introduction explains how each essay cont…

  • Imperial Projecting in Virginia and Venezuela: Copper, Colonialism, and the Printing of Possibility

    Allison Margaret BigelowARTICLEEarly American studies2018Cited by: 1References: 11

    When metals are mentioned in early American histories, they tend to be the fabled gold of New World spaces ("El Dorado"), or the silver bullion of world trade (reales). But less noble metals tell equally important stories about the colonial past. This article analyzes promotional literatures from seventeenth-century Virginia and Venezuela to show how two writers converted a moment of currency crisis in early modern Europe and uneven metallic trad…

  • The Matter of Empire: Metaphysics and Mining in Colonial Peru

    Allison Margaret Bigelow, Allison BigelowARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2018

  • Feminism in the New Millennium: Reflections from a Colonial Classroom

    Allison Margaret Bigelow, Allison BigelowARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2017

  • Women, Men, and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes

    Allison Margaret BigelowARTICLEEthnohistory2016Cited by: 10References: 40

    Histories of colonial Latin American mining have cemented the image of a scientifically backward society whose pursuit of easy wealth sacrificed the lives of indigenous and African miners in places like Potosí. By examining a mid-seventeenth-century mine dispute between an Andean woman and a Spanish man, this article suggests how legal archives can reveal indigenous women's contributions to the history of colonial silver. It also provides an appe…

  • Incorporating indigenous knowledge into extractive economies: The science of colonial silver

    Open AccessAllison Margaret BigelowARTICLEThe Extractive Industries and…2015Cited by: 10References: 9

  • Gendered Language and the Science of Colonial Silk

    Allison Margaret BigelowARTICLEEarly American literature2014References: 13

    This article uses pronominal resilience to suggest how we can identify women's contributions to the colonial silk industry. By comparing different editions of silkworm treatises, all of which were published between 1650-1655 and circulated within the Hartlib Circle's circum-Atlantic network of readers (Bermuda, Germany, England, Ireland, Virginia), I find a pattern in the gendered language of the texts. Books that describe worms grown by women us…