Marchands, hacendados et paysans à Tepeaca. Un marché local mexicain à la fin du XVIIIe siècle

Tepeaca: A Local Mexican Market at the End of the 19th Century. This paper takes on the task of qualifying the dominant view in historiography that haciendas and corn played predominant roles in supplying Central Mexican markets and in consumption. Herein we try, without minimizing the general validity of this view, to shed light on the multiform structures and complexity of markets and con- sumption in New-Spain. Our study allows us to show that, while the haciendas indeed playedan important part, Indians, half-breeds and poor Spaniards competed with them for market shares; these social groups controlled a great many resources in the region. Secondly, while corn was indeed the most notable product on the local market, animal herds also played a major role in the supplying of food and raw materials in this provincial town, so representative of other small and medium-sized markets in Central Mexico.Garavaglia Juan Carlos, Grosso Juan Carlos. Marchands, hacendados et paysans à Tepeaca. Un marché local mexicain à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 44ᵉ année, N. 3, 1989. pp. 553-580