Mexico, both to enrich themselves and to develop their home city as a new site of empire." …

Main description: The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in … colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archival sources, Richard Salvucci uses standard economic theory … and simple measurement to analyze the obraje and its inability to survive Mexico's integration into the world market after …

Introduction : market vendors and the history of capitalism in Mexico, 1867-1966 -- Taxes and compassion, 1867 …"Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the expansion of … capitalism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. These publicly owned and operated markets supplied households with …