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Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm.
Edited by MARY G. HODGE and MICHAEL E. SMITH. Austin: University of Texas Press, I995. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. viii, 478 pp. Paper. $32.00.
This volume is the most important work on the Aztecs yet in print. It takes a refreshing look at one of the American empires by demolishing the monolithic view of a centralized economy in favor of one of a more complex economic system in which variation and dynamics at the local and regional levels are taken into account.
The editors are to be congratulated for putting together...