Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500-2000 - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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."