The Aztec Economic World: Merchants and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica - Hardcover

Kenneth G. Hirth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107142776 ISBN 13: 9781107142770

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.

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About the Author

Kenneth G. Hirth is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the origin and development of ranked and state-level societies in the New World. He is especially interested in political economy and how forms of resource control lead to the development of structural inequalities within society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107142776
• ISBN 13: 9781107142770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 404