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

A global history of natural dyes from the Americas, exploring how their production and trade shaped globalization as well as the societies from which they came.

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carlos Marichal (Editor), David Pretel (Editor), Carlos Marichal (Editor), David Pretel (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781350408142
• ISBN: 978-1-350-40814-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, Economic history, General and world history, History of the Americas, The Americas