Trading with Power: Mexico City's Markets, 1867-1958

This dissertation traces the history of Mexico City’s municipal markets from a patchwork of sites of customary trade dating from the colonial era to a network of state-controlled modernist halls in the 1950s. It shows how, as small-scale vendors of tomatoes, straw hats, charcoal and all manner of ev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bleynat, Ingrid
Other Authors: Womack, John
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10961
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10860159