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"Drawing on both archaeological and historical sources, Trigg analyzes the various levels of economic activity that developed: production of items in colonial households, exchanges between households, and trade between the colony and Mexico. Rather than focusing only on the flow of products and services, she also explores the social mechanisms that likely had a significant impact on the economic life of the colony. Because economic activity was important to so many aspects of daily life, she is able to show how and why colonial society worked the way it did. While focusing on the colonists, she also explores their relations with Pueblo peoples."--Jacket.

"Settlers at Santa Fe and outlying homesteads during the seventeenth century established a thriving economy that saw the exchange of commodities produced by indigenous peoples, settlers, and Franciscan friars for goods manufactured as far away as China, France, and Turkey. This early Spanish colonial period in New Mexico provides an opportunity to explore both economic activity within a colony and the relations between colony and homeland. By examining the material remains of this era - from the founding of the colony in 1598 to its demise with the Pueblo Rebellion in 1680 - Heather Trigg reveals a more complete picture of colonial life."

1. Introduction

2. Approaches to the analysis of colonial economies

3. Historical trajectory and social context : New Mexico during the early colonial period

4. Archaeological and documentary resources from seventeenth-century New Mexico

5. The foundation of economy : households

6. "Mere barter" : the regional economy

7. Crude Iron and Porcelain : the colony-empire economy

8. Conclusions.

Indians of North America > New Mexico > History > 17th century.

Colonists > New Mexico > History > 17th century.

Households > New Mexico > History > 17th century.

Spain > Colonies > America > History > 17th century.

New Mexico > Economic conditions > 17th century.

New Mexico > Ethnic relations.

New Mexico > Social life and customs > 17th century.

New Mexico > History > To 1848.