Jeannette Graulau
Biographic Data
| ID | 515248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeannette Graulau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeannette |
| FAMILY NAME | Graulau |
| SIGNATURE | GRAULAU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lehman College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2478-5466 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The infamous letters of Julian Steward and Raymond Scheele: Unearthing the Cold War history behind The people of Puerto Rico
Did British landlords ‘cripple prosperity’? The battle for mineral rents in the age of empire
Remembering the life and times of Eric R. Wolf (1923–1999) in Puerto Rico: A jíbara tribute
Silver mining monopolies and money relations in the ‘Asian age of the world economy’
Capital and Mining Property Relations: Reconsidering Marxist Understanding of Feudal Mining Land
Marxism holds that feudal mining land was characterized by production relations that gave lords the upper hand. Lacking productive capital, mining land was generally a site of coercive feudal-property relations. The idea is indefensible, as evidence shows that mining lands triggered property arrangements antagonizing lordly power. This article discusses the labor and capital relations that transformed feudal land into mining land. It argues that …
The Underground Wealth of Nations: On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A.D. 1150-1450
Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large-scale businesses that demanded large investments and steady cash flow, achieved by spreading that risk through fungible shares and creating legal structures to protect entrepreneurs from financial disaster. This bo…
Underground Wealth of Nations: On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A. D. 1150-1450
A ‘Lengthy Digression’: Why Mining Lagged Elsewhere
This chapter provides the mining history of the mountains of the rest of the world. It begins with England in which major silver discoveries took place in Bere Ferrers or Bere Ferris, a valley of the Tamar River in North Devon, southwest of Dartmoor, and at Combe Martin in the north after the mid-thirteenth century. However, English mines were challenging as they were physically distant from the central arteries of international trade of continen…
Capitalist miners in feudal Europe: A commentary on Marxist agrarian history
Marxist agrarian history conceives of medieval mining as a pre‐capitalist and backward economy isolated from all forms of capitalist change. Mining history says otherwise. Evidence confirms that mining labour enjoyed the conditions for an early emancipation from serfdom, rooted in the ascent of a European silver‐based monetary economy from the eleventh century onwards. Feudal lords were caught between Scylla and Charybdis, vulnerable to the rise …
The Underground Wealth of Nations: On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A.D. 1150-1450
Ownership of mines and taxation in Castilian laws, from the middle ages to the early modern period: The decisive influence of the sovereign in the history of mining
Sovereign ownership of mines and taxation were fundamental principles governing the mining economy of the territories of the Castilian crown during the medieval period. Ownership of mines meant that mineral wealth, discovered or undiscovered, belonged to the crown estate. Only the sovereign could grant mining rights to ‘private’ persons and impose mineral taxation. Particularly during the last three centuries of the Reconquista (thirteenth to fif…
Is mining good for development?’: The Intellectual History of an Unsettled Question
The paper presents a general overview of the intellectual history of the question of mining in the development field. It describes the leading development theories and their normative claims with respect to mining, based upon the work of landmark theorists in the field. The contention of this paper is that development theories, swinging like a pendulum back and forth with the question ‘Is mining good for development?’, have a troubled relationshi…
Is mining good for development?’: The Intellectual History of an Unsettled Question
The paper presents a general overview of the intellectual history of the question of mining in the development field. It describes the leading development theories and their normative claims with respect to mining, based upon the work of landmark theorists in the field. The contention of this paper is that development theories, swinging like a pendulum back and forth with the question ‘Is mining good for development?’, have a troubled relationshi…
Capitalist miners in feudal Europe: A commentary on Marxist agrarian history
Marxist agrarian history conceives of medieval mining as a pre‐capitalist and backward economy isolated from all forms of capitalist change. Mining history says otherwise. Evidence confirms that mining labour enjoyed the conditions for an early emancipation from serfdom, rooted in the ascent of a European silver‐based monetary economy from the eleventh century onwards. Feudal lords were caught between Scylla and Charybdis, vulnerable to the rise …
The Underground Wealth of Nations: On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A.D. 1150-1450
Ownership of mines and taxation in Castilian laws, from the middle ages to the early modern period: The decisive influence of the sovereign in the history of mining
Sovereign ownership of mines and taxation were fundamental principles governing the mining economy of the territories of the Castilian crown during the medieval period. Ownership of mines meant that mineral wealth, discovered or undiscovered, belonged to the crown estate. Only the sovereign could grant mining rights to ‘private’ persons and impose mineral taxation. Particularly during the last three centuries of the Reconquista (thirteenth to fif…
Is mining good for development?’: The Intellectual History of an Unsettled Question
The paper presents a general overview of the intellectual history of the question of mining in the development field. It describes the leading development theories and their normative claims with respect to mining, based upon the work of landmark theorists in the field. The contention of this paper is that development theories, swinging like a pendulum back and forth with the question ‘Is mining good for development?’, have a troubled relationshi…
Ownership of mines and taxation in Castilian laws, from the middle ages to the early modern period: The decisive influence of the sovereign in the history of mining
Sovereign ownership of mines and taxation were fundamental principles governing the mining economy of the territories of the Castilian crown during the medieval period. Ownership of mines meant that mineral wealth, discovered or undiscovered, belonged to the crown estate. Only the sovereign could grant mining rights to ‘private’ persons and impose mineral taxation. Particularly during the last three centuries of the Reconquista (thirteenth to fif…
The Underground Wealth of Nations: On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A.D. 1150-1450
Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large-scale businesses that demanded large investments and steady cash flow, achieved by spreading that risk through fungible shares and creating legal structures to protect entrepreneurs from financial disaster. This bo…
Underground Wealth of Nations: On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A. D. 1150-1450
A ‘Lengthy Digression’: Why Mining Lagged Elsewhere
This chapter provides the mining history of the mountains of the rest of the world. It begins with England in which major silver discoveries took place in Bere Ferrers or Bere Ferris, a valley of the Tamar River in North Devon, southwest of Dartmoor, and at Combe Martin in the north after the mid-thirteenth century. However, English mines were challenging as they were physically distant from the central arteries of international trade of continen…
Capitalist miners in feudal Europe: A commentary on Marxist agrarian history
Marxist agrarian history conceives of medieval mining as a pre‐capitalist and backward economy isolated from all forms of capitalist change. Mining history says otherwise. Evidence confirms that mining labour enjoyed the conditions for an early emancipation from serfdom, rooted in the ascent of a European silver‐based monetary economy from the eleventh century onwards. Feudal lords were caught between Scylla and Charybdis, vulnerable to the rise …
The Underground Wealth of Nations: On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A.D. 1150-1450
Capital and Mining Property Relations: Reconsidering Marxist Understanding of Feudal Mining Land
Marxism holds that feudal mining land was characterized by production relations that gave lords the upper hand. Lacking productive capital, mining land was generally a site of coercive feudal-property relations. The idea is indefensible, as evidence shows that mining lands triggered property arrangements antagonizing lordly power. This article discusses the labor and capital relations that transformed feudal land into mining land. It argues that …
Silver mining monopolies and money relations in the ‘Asian age of the world economy’
Remembering the life and times of Eric R. Wolf (1923–1999) in Puerto Rico: A jíbara tribute
The infamous letters of Julian Steward and Raymond Scheele: Unearthing the Cold War history behind The people of Puerto Rico
Did British landlords ‘cripple prosperity’? The battle for mineral rents in the age of empire
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