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Carlos Marichal is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at El Colegio de México, Mexico. He has published twenty books including A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America, 1820-1930. In 2012 he received the National Prize of Mexico in Sciences and Arts. David Pretel is Assistant Professor at Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Cambridge, UCLA, and the Max Planck Institute. He is the author of Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain, and co-editor of The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy, 1650-1914 and Technology and Globalisation: Networks of Experts in World History.
This rich edited collection shines a light on the vibrant and complex histories of American natural dyes over the course of the last 500 years. The book’s chapters weave together stories of labor and the environment, of global markets and transoceanic corporations as well as backwoods piracy and local politics. Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization offers an essential perspective on natural dyes’ enduring importance as trade items as well as sites of exploitation, negotiation, and innovation. - Molly A. Warsh, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, USA This volume is an important addition to the scholarship on global dyestuffs, recognising the role played by colours and the control of dye materials in global networks. With the inclusion of Spanish and Portuguese sources, the chapters collectively offer a narrative of commodities, labour and colonial exploitation across the centuries. * Pippa Lacey, Independent Scholar, UK *
