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The Aztec Economic World Merchants and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica
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Title
The Aztec Economic World [electronic resource] : Merchants and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica / Kenneth G. Hirth, Department of Anthropology, Penn State University.
ISBN
9781316537350 (electronic bk.)
1316537358 (electronic bk.)
9781107142770 (hardback)
1107142776 (hardback)
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Merchants and markets in ancient Mesoamerica
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Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 22, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-370) and index.
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.
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