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Desde los primeros homínidos, pasando por la aparición del género Homo, hasta el perfeccionamiento en la talla de rocas, el origen de la agricultura y la vida sedentaria, Ian Tattersall nos muestra un espectro de la historia donde se percibe una visión pa

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En Los mercados de la Plaza Mayor en la Ciudad de México encontra-mos un ejercicio de microhistoria. La obra indaga la génesis de los merca-dos capitalinos modernos. El comercio tradicional novohispano que combina-ba los «cajones» de espanoles y los «puestos» de indfgenas y castas, se trasformô hasta consolidar, durante el siglo XVIII, très mercados especializa-dos: Alcaiceria, Baratillo y bastimentos. Nada mâs ajeno a los mercados virrei-nales que la libre competencia y la ley de la oferta y la demanda; en cambio, aparecen una serie de vînculos esta-mentales y relaciones informales ...