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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