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Segundo volumen de Documentos cortesianos que presenta una edición anotada del juicio de residencia de Hernán Cortés, entre 1526 y 1545. El valor bibliográfico de este juicio radica en que presenta por primera vez un seguimiento cronológico de la documentación sobre el orden del régimen administrativo de bienes, remisiones y aprovisionamientos en los primeros años de la Colonia, información que se sirvió en mucho de las Cartas de relación.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En Los mercados de la Plaza Mayor en la Ciudad de México encontra-mos un ejercicio de microhistoria. La obra indaga la génesis de los merca-dos capitalinos modernos. El comercio tradicional novohispano que combina-ba los «cajones» de espanoles y los «puestos» de indfgenas y castas, se trasformô hasta consolidar, durante el siglo XVIII, très mercados especializa-dos: Alcaiceria, Baratillo y bastimentos. Nada mâs ajeno a los mercados virrei-nales que la libre competencia y la ley de la oferta y la demanda; en cambio, aparecen una serie de vînculos esta-mentales y relaciones informales ...