This essay examines several interrelated themes and uses a variety of research strategies to explore the general topic of chocolate and the cacao trade in early seventeenth-century Mexico. Based primarily on the records of the Mexico Tribunal of the Inquisition, the essay attempts to expand our understanding of the beginning of large-scale chocolate consumption in Mexico, of the inner workings of the business of buying, transporting, and selling cacao beans, and the business of chocolate sold at retail. A central section attempts to estimate the profit that was made in the cacao trade, offering a careful analysis of prices, taxes, and shipping costs. The essay ends with a biographical sketch of a Portuguese slave trader turned cacao merch...
This article presents chronologically historical-cultural and economic facts of cocoa in Ecuador. Th...
Cacao is a commodity crop from the tropics cultivated by about 6 million smallholder farmers. The tr...
In recent years, the way of marketing cocoa has changed, which has made a radical change in the prod...
This essay examines several interrelated themes and uses a variety of research strategies to explore...
Este ensayo examina una variedad de temas relacionados entre sí y utiliza diferentes estrategias de ...
The article describes the importance of cacaoconsumption in Mexico City in the 18th century. It defi...
My dissertation is focusing on the cocoa trade in colonial Spanish America. Cocoa is undoubtedly one...
In this article we intend to address the market chain of the main commodity exported from the port o...
This study examines the economy of Caracas Province during the eighteenth century using the staple t...
The Olmec, Maya and Mexica were familiar with the properties of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) which the...
This article analyzes the beginnings of cacao production in the Central Caribbean region of Costa Ri...
Cocoa, The Wealth of Poor Countries. The cocoa tree is a tree of the wet tropical forest that origin...
This article reviews cocoa and chocolate production, consumption and the industrial organization of ...
Maia Madison ’15 created two maps and a guide to the cacao trade in New Spain based on resources fro...
Este artículo es un breve relato de la historia del cacao en el mundo, en Colombia y en Cúcuta, surg...
This article presents chronologically historical-cultural and economic facts of cocoa in Ecuador. Th...
Cacao is a commodity crop from the tropics cultivated by about 6 million smallholder farmers. The tr...
In recent years, the way of marketing cocoa has changed, which has made a radical change in the prod...
This essay examines several interrelated themes and uses a variety of research strategies to explore...
Este ensayo examina una variedad de temas relacionados entre sí y utiliza diferentes estrategias de ...
The article describes the importance of cacaoconsumption in Mexico City in the 18th century. It defi...
My dissertation is focusing on the cocoa trade in colonial Spanish America. Cocoa is undoubtedly one...
In this article we intend to address the market chain of the main commodity exported from the port o...
This study examines the economy of Caracas Province during the eighteenth century using the staple t...
The Olmec, Maya and Mexica were familiar with the properties of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) which the...
This article analyzes the beginnings of cacao production in the Central Caribbean region of Costa Ri...
Cocoa, The Wealth of Poor Countries. The cocoa tree is a tree of the wet tropical forest that origin...
This article reviews cocoa and chocolate production, consumption and the industrial organization of ...
Maia Madison ’15 created two maps and a guide to the cacao trade in New Spain based on resources fro...
Este artículo es un breve relato de la historia del cacao en el mundo, en Colombia y en Cúcuta, surg...
This article presents chronologically historical-cultural and economic facts of cocoa in Ecuador. Th...
Cacao is a commodity crop from the tropics cultivated by about 6 million smallholder farmers. The tr...
In recent years, the way of marketing cocoa has changed, which has made a radical change in the prod...