A Silver River in a Silver World

David Freeman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

• Introduction; 1. The silver world; 2. The silver river; 3. Golden connections: governors, networks, and contracts; 4. Dutch ships and Dutch men on the Río de la Plata; 5. Conflicting ownership; 6. Silver tongues; 7. Silver politics on the estuary; 8. The Silver River runs dry.

'In this valuable new book, David Freeman has illuminated the complexity and importance of Dutch commercial connections with the Rio e la Plata in the seventeenth century, thus revising our understanding of both colonial administration and the organization of the regional economy. Based on impressive archival research, this well-researched volume thus provides valuable new insights into the form and structure of Dutch and other foreign trade through Buenos Aires to the silver-producing centers of the Andes.' Lyman Johnson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte