{"product_id":"indians-merchants-and-markets-9780804735124","title":"Indians Merchants and Markets","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining repartimiento production of cochineal, a dyestuff produced exclusively by Oaxacan Indians and representing Mexico's most valued export after silver, this study shows that Indians produced cochineal for the market voluntarily because it provided them with needed income.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIndians, Merchants, and Markets\u003c\/i\u003e is an important, well-researched addition to the small but growing literature on the repartimiento.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His keen analysis of the Oaxacan case requires any future scholar of this subject to take his work into account.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Economic historian Jeremy Baskes has gone a considerable distance in convincingly rehabilitating one of the most vilified instruments of colonial domination in Spanish America, the notorious \u003ci\u003erepartimiento de mercancias\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . [An] excellent work in economic history. . . . The closely reasoned revisionism of Baskes' study is very welcome.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Baskes' study manages to provide the most detailed account yet of the economics of small-scale rural credit in late colonial Mexico, as well as a lucid quantitative reconstruction of the costs and complications of the commodity export business during that period. . . . His compelling arguments certainly do away with the old certainties and invite further research on Indians and markets in colonial Latin America.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this engaging monograph, Baskes reconstructs a tantalizing glimpse of the agricultural aspects of cochineal production . . . .[\u003ci\u003eIndians, Merchants, and Markets\u003c\/i\u003e] is a fascinating treatment of an undeservedly under-examined area of colonial Latin American history.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of tables  List of illustrations  Acknowledgements  Note on abbreviations and conventions  1. Introduction  2. The 'Repartimiento' and the production of cochineal  3. The 'Repartimiento' and crown politics  4. Coerced or voluntary? Market participation of Indians  5. Informal credit institutions and cross-cultural trade  6. A risky business: credit and default in the dye trade  7. Indians and markets  8. Oaxaca to London: a balance sheet  9. Epilogue  Appendixes  Notes  Bibliography  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405532766551,"sku":"9780804735124","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804735124.jpg?v=1730492757","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indians-merchants-and-markets-9780804735124","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}