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The Aztec Economic World : Merchants and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica / Kenneth G. Hirth, Department of Anthropology, Penn State University.
Penn Museum Library F1219.76.E36 H57 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirth, Kenn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aztecs--Economic conditions.
- Aztecs.
- Aztecs--Commerce.
- Merchants--Mexico--History--To 1500.
- Merchants.
- Indians of Mexico--Economic conditions.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indians of Mexico--Commerce--History--To 1500.
- Indians of Mexico--Commerce.
- History.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 382 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Merchants and markets in ancient Mesoamerica
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction to the Aztec economic world
- The structure of Mesoamerican economy
- The Mesoamerican marketplace
- Merchants, profit and the Precolumbian world
- Often invisible: domestic entrepreneurs in Mesoamerican commerce
- The professional retail merchants
- Merchant communities and Pochteca vanguard merchants
- The tools of the trade and the mechanics of commerce
- Conclusions
- Glossary of Nahuatl and early Colonial Spanish terms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-370) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107142770
- 1107142776
- OCLC:
- 921102663
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