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From Household to Empire : Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trigg, Heather B. (Heather Bethany), 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.