Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization - by Carlos Marichal & David Pretel (Hardcover)
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- This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have shaped globalisation since early modern times.From their extraction and processing to their overseas trade, it shows how this commodity contributed to the rise of the textile industry and consumption in Europe, the United States and Latin America.
- About the Author: Carlos Marichal is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at El Colegio de México, Mexico.
- 256 Pages
- History, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have shaped globalisation since early modern times.From their extraction and processing to their overseas trade, it shows how this commodity contributed to the rise of the textile industry and consumption in Europe, the United States and Latin America. In doing so, it sheds new light on the emergence of a global economy.Spanning several centuries, Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization takes the reader from 1500 through the industrial revolutions of Europe and the United States and culminates in the synthetic age of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Ranging from the indigo trade in the Atlantic to the secrets of the Indian production of cochineal, the chapters in this collection transcend nationally bounded historical narratives and explore transoceanic dynamics, imperial ambitions and the cross-cultural exchange of knowledge and techniques to better understand the birth of globalization.
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This book offers a wide range of intriguing and surprising cases and experiences from the early centuries of globalization.
Steven Topik, Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Irvine, 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 Globalizationoffers 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
About the Author
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.Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .63 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.17 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardcover
Author: Carlos Marichal & David Pretel
Language: English
Street Date: September 5, 2024
TCIN: 93353288
UPC: 9781350408111
Item Number (DPCI): 247-48-3857
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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