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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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