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David Pretel is a professor of economic history at Autonomous University of Madrid and has been visiting scholar at the universities of Harvard, Cambridge, UCLA, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He was educated in Madrid and Cambridge and has held teaching and research positions at the European University Institute, El Colegio de México, and Pompeu Fabra University. His first book, Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Palgrave), examined the development of the Spanish patent system, providing a fundamental reassessment of its evolution in an international and imperial context. He is co-editor of the volumes The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy, 1650–1914 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series), Technology and Globalization: Networks of Experts in World History (Palgrave) and The Colours of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas (forthcoming with Bloomsbury). His writings have appeared in journals such as Technology & Culture, Global Environment and Historia Mexicana and volumes such as The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History. His works and other details can be found on his website: www.davidpretel.com