Download or read book Price Trends of Royal Tribute Commodities in Nueva Galicia written by Woodrow Borah and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal treasury records of annual auctions of Indian tributes are the best source of price history for sixteenth-century Nueva Galicia. Using this data, the author has determined that from 1557 to 1598 the prices of some commodities such as maize rose more sharply than in the neighboring Audiencia of Mexico, whereas other prices, such as those for wheat, fell. The prices in the great mining center of Zacatecas, especially, differed from those in both Guadalajara and Mexico City.