Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization

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.

The sheer breadth of the contributions certainly might raise questions as to whether dyes can be consolidated into a single history ... The compact and longue durée approach of many chapters are ideal to complement global, social, and economic histories of Latin America or world civilization surveys.

• 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 National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)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, Colombia)8. Indigo in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela: An Unfinished History, (Frédérique 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