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New publication: “Latin America in the Global History of Technology”
In L. Hilaire-Perez, G. Carnino and J. Lamy (eds.): Global History of Technology (Brepols, Global Matters series): 233-249. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503591513-1
Invited seminar presentation at Universidad de Granada
Seminario Investigación EURAME, Aulario de Posgrado B2, 4 de Marzo, 12:00h. David Pretel, "Más allá del extractivismo: selvas tropicales como paisajes industriales (1820-2024)".
New chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Commodity History
David Pretel, "Towards a Technological History of Commodity Production,"in Curry-Machado, J., Stubbs, J., Clarence-Smith, W., and Vos, J. (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Commodity History (Oxford...
David Pretel invited as keynote speaker for the “National Historiographies of Techniques” congress
28-29 September 2023, Paris, (EHESS & Musée du quai Branly)
New article published in the journal History of Science
Saul Guerrero & David Pretel, “Silver Refining in the New World: A Singularity in the History of Useful Knowledge”.
Award: David Pretel’s won an honorable mention for the best article in Economic History by the CMCH
The article 'Reacciones en cadena: cambio tecnológico global y frontera forestal en la península de Yucatán (ca. 1850-1950)' , published in the number 227 of the Historia Mexicana Journal, was...
Invited discussant: Passim Workshop Patent Futures, a History
Mundaneum, Mons, Belgium, April 26-28, 2023. Come and meet the entire ERC-PASSIM team and our special invitees: David Pretel, Autonomous University of Madrid and Katarina Nordqvist, Swedish Ministry...
New article published in the journal Technology & Culture
David Pretel, "Hidden Connections: The Global History of Jungle Commodities", Technology and Culture, vol. 64 no. 1, 2023, pp. 202-219. Go to full article.
Workshop Presentation: European History Beyond Borders, EUI, Florence, 8-9 December 2022
I will be presenting on methodologies and sources for a global history of tropical forest commodities.