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Author Hirth, Kenn, author.

Title The Aztec economic world : merchants and markets in ancient Mesoamerica / Kenneth G. Hirth, Department of Anthropology, Penn State University.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 382 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.
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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Subject Aztecs -- Economic conditions.
Aztecs -- Economic conditions.
Aztecs.
Aztecs -- Commerce.
Aztecs -- Commerce.
Merchants -- Mexico -- History -- To 1500.
Mexico.
Merchants.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject History.
Indians of Mexico -- Economic conditions.
Indians of Mexico -- Economic conditions.
Indians of Mexico -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500.
Indians of Mexico -- Commerce.
Indians of Mexico.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Merchants and markets in ancient Mesoamerica
Other Form: Print version: Hirth, Kenn. Aztec Economic World. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107142770 (DLC) 2015034786 (OCoLC)921102663
ISBN 9781316656389 (electronic book)
1316656381 (electronic book)
9781316537350
1316537358
9781316657782
1316657787
9781107142770 (hardback)
1107142776 (hardback)
9781316509869 (paperback)
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