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Author:   Carlos Marichal ,  David Pretel
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350408111

ISBN 10:   1350408115
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 September 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors 1. Introduction: The Colours of Globalization, (Carlos Marichal and David Pretel, El Colegio de México, Mexico and University of Madrid, Spain) 2. The Natural Dyes of the Americas: Geography, Labour and Trade, (Carlos Marichal, El Colegio de México, Mexico) 3. The Making of Colonial Blue: Mesoamerican Indigo in the Iberian Atlantic, 1560–1620, (Adrianna Catena and Huemac Escalona, University of Warwick, UK and Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain) 4, A Place Under the Sun: Brazilwood in the Brazilian Economy (1500–1875), (José Jobson de Andrade Arruda, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) 5. Mexican Cochineal and the Material History of Art, (Georges Roque, CNRS, France) 6. Logwood, Masterless Men and British Interests in Yucatan and Central America, (Karl Offen, Syracuse University, USA) 7. From Abundance to Scarcity: Dyewood Production and Trade in the Colombian Caribbean, 1700–1900 (Jorge Enrique Elías-Caro, University of Magdalena, Columbia) 8. Indigo in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela: An Unfinished History, (Fédérique Langue, CNRS, France) 9. Above and Beyond Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Slave Expertise and South Carolina Indigo, (Andrea Feeser, Clemson University, USA) 10. Local Production, Atlantic trade: The Logwood Economy in Laguna de Términos During the Nineteenth Century, (Pascale Villegas and Rosa Torras Canangla, Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Mexico and Centro de Estudios Mexicanos, Mexico) 11. Costa Rican Neotropical Dyewoods in Global Context, 1885–1940, (Anthony Goebel-Mc Dermott and Ronny J. Viales-Hurtado, Central America's Historical Research Center, Costa Rica, and University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica) 12. Defying Substitution: A Caribbean Dyewood in the Synthetic Age, (David Pretel, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) 13. Epilogue, (Dominique Cardon, CNRS, France) Selected Bibliography Index

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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, History Department, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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 *

Author Information

Carlos Marichal is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at El Colegio de México, Mexico. He has published twenty books, as author and editor, 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 visiting scholar at the universities of Harvard, Cambridge, UCLA, and the Max Planck Institute. His first book, Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain, examined the development of the Spanish patent system, and he is co-editor of the volumes The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy, 1650-1914 and Technology and Globalisation: Networks of Experts in World History.

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