From Household to Empire

Download or read book From Household to Empire written by Heather Bethany Trigg and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on both archaeological and historical sources, Trigg analyzes the various levels of economic activity that developed: production of items in colonial households, exchanges between households, and trade between the colony and Mexico. Rather than focusing only on the flow of products and services, she also explores the social mechanisms that likely had a significant impact on the economic life of the colony. Because economic activity was important to so many aspects of daily life, she is able to show how and why colonial society worked the way it did. While focusing on the colonists, she also explores their relations with Pueblo peoples."--BOOK JACKET.