Publications

Forthcoming

David Pretel (forthcoming): "Tracks to Conflict: Railways and Capitalism in Mexico’s Periphery," In Dagmar Schäfer, Francesca Bray, Tiago Saraiva, Matteo Valleriani, and Shadreck Chirikure (eds.), Cambridge History of Technology, Vol. III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2024

David Pretel (2024): "Reinventing Development: The Patent Controversy of the 1960s and 1970s," In G. Mateos and E. Suarez, Interrogating Development: the mobilization of sciences, technologies, and technical assistance in postwar Mexico. Cham: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.

David Pretel (2024): "Review of Gregg Mitman, Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia," Illes i Imperis - Islands and Empires, 26.

Carlos Marichal and David Pretel (2024): "Introduction: The Colours of Globalisation," In C. Marichal & D. Pretel: Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500–2000. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-13.

David Pretel (2024): "Defying Substitution: A Caribbean Dyewood in the Synthetic Age," In Carlos Marichal and David Pretel: Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500–2000. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 203-217.

Carlos Marichal and David Pretel (2024): Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500–2000. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350408111.

David Pretel (2024): "Review of Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy and Tiago Saraiva, Moving Crops and the Scales of History," História, histórias (Universidade de Brasília), forthcoming.

2023

Saul Guerrero and David Pretel (2023): "Silver Refining in the New World: A Singularity in the History of Useful Knowledge," History of Science, 62 (2), (2024). First published online July 31, 2023, pp. 175-201.

David Pretel (2023): "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: Oxford University Press, 239-266.

David Pretel (2023): "Hidden Connections: The Global History of Jungle Commodities," Technology and Culture, vol. 64 no. 1, 202-219.

David Pretel (2023): "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). Both English and French editions, 233-249.

2022

David Pretel (2022): "Capitalismo y esclavitud: Nuevas historias, viejos debates," Ayer: Revista de Historia Contemporánea,126 (2), 331-345.

David Pretel (2022): "Latin America and the Emergence of an International Patent System," Artefact. Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines, 16, 269-287.

David Pretel (2022): "Ingenieros e historia en América Latina: una introducción," in Luz María Uhthoff and María Cecilia Zuleta (eds.): Historias de ingenieros en América Latina. Entre el Estado y los desafíos productivos, 1870-1980 (Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México), 4-21.

David Pretel (2022): "Reparaciones por la esclavitud: debate internacional y reflexiones sobre el caso español," in Martin Rodrigo (ed.): Del olvido a la memoria: La esclavitud en la España contemporánea (Barcelona: Icaria), 317-338.

2021

David Pretel (2021): "Review of Rajeshwari Dutt, Empire on Edge: The British Struggle for Order in Belize," Hispanic American Historical Review, 101 (4), 708-10.

David Pretel (2021): "The Maya Forest and Indigenous Resistance during the Caste War," Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History, 14:1, 120–145.

2020

David Pretel (2020): "Reacciones en cadena: cambio tecnológico global y frontera forestal en la península de Yucatán (c. 1850 - 1950)," Historia Mexicana, nº. 276 , 259-311. (awarded an honorable mention by the CMCH).

David Pretel (2020): "Review of A. Resendez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America," Illes i imperis, 22, 289-293.

Rafael Castro, Nadia Fernández and David Pretel (2020): "Technology Transfer Networks in the First Industrial Age: The case of Derosne & Cail and the Sugar Industry (1812-1871)," Business History, 62:7, 1107-1136.

2019

David Pretel (2019): "Technology and the Fates of Three Caribbean Commodities," History of Technology,  Vol. 34 (1), 127-148.

David Pretel, Ian Inkster and Helge Wendt (2019): "Technology in Latin American History: Perspectives, Scales and Comparisons," History of Technology, 34 (1), 1-22.

David Pretel (2019): "Invenciones institucionales: El sistema de patentes en las colonias españolas durante el siglo XIX," América Latina en la Historia Económica / Latin America in Economic History, 26 (2), 1-23.

2018

David Pretel (2018): "Blog entry: The History of Technology After the Global Turn." Palgrave Macmillan Author Blog.

David Pretel (2018): Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain. London: Palgrave.

David Pretel and Lino Camprubí (2018): Technology and Globalisation: Networks of Experts in World History. London: Palgrave.

David Pretel (2018): "The global rise of patent expertise during the late 19th century," in Pretel, D. and Camprubí, L. (eds.), Technology and Globalisation: Networks of Experts in World History (Palgrave-Macmillan), a previous version appeared as Pretel, D. (2018). "The global rise of patent expertise in the late nineteenth century", Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History (CWPESH no. 31), 129-157.

David Pretel and Lino Camprubí (2018): "Technological Encounters: Locating Experts in the History of Globalisation," in Pretel, D. and Camprubí, L.: Technology and Globalisation: Networks of experts in world history (Palgrave-Macmillan), 1-26.

2017

David Pretel (2017): "Review of A. Finucane, The Temptations of Trade: Britain, Spain and the Struggle for Empire," Journal of American History 104 (3), 752-753.

David Pretel (2017): "Review of E. Beatty, Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico," Investigaciones de Historia Económica / Economic History Research, vol. 13, nº 2, 133-134.

David Pretel (2017): "La Economía Política del Sistema Español de Patentes en Perspectiva Internacional, 1826-1902," Investigaciones de Historia Económica-Economic History Research, 190-200.

2016

David Pretel (2016): "Review of E. Saccarelli and L.Varadarajan, Imperialism Past and Present," Illes i Imperis - Islands and Empires, 18, 119-121.

2015

Adrian Leonard and David Pretel (2015): The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy: Circuits of Trade, Money and Knowledge, 1650-1914. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series.

Adrian Leonard and David Pretel (2015): "Experiments in Modernity: The Making of the Atlantic World Economy," in A. Leonard and D. Pretel (eds.): The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy: Circuits of Trade, Money and Knowledge, 1650-1914 (Palgrave- Macmillan, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series), 1-14.

David Pretel and Nadia Fernandez de Pinedo (2015): "Circuits of Knowledge: Foreign Technology and Transnational Expertise in Nineteenth-Century Cuba," in A. Leonard and D. Pretel (eds.), The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy: Circuits of Trade, Money and Knowledge, 1650-1914 (Palgrave- Macmillan, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series), 263-289.

2014

Patricio Saiz and David Pretel (2014): "Why Did Multinationals Patent in Spain? Several Historical Inquiries," in Pierre-Yves Donzé and Shigehiro Nishimura (eds.): Organizing Global Technology Flow: Institutions, Actors, and Processes (New York: Routledge), 39-59.

2012

David Pretel and Patricio Saiz (2012): "Patent Agents in the European Periphery: Spain 1826-1902," History of Technology, 32 (1), 97-114.

2011

Patricio Sáiz, Francisco Cayón, David Pretel (et al.) (2011): "200 años de Patentes," (Madrid: OEPM, Ministerio de Industria).

2010

Nadia Fernández, David Pretel and Patricio Sáiz (2010): "Patents, Sugar Technology and Sub-Imperial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Cuba." History of Technology, 30 (1), 47-62.

2009

David Pretel (2009): "Invención, nacionalismo tecnológico y progreso: el discurso de la propiedad industrial en la España del siglo XIX," Empiria: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 18 (1), 59-93.

David Pretel (2009): "Review of C. MacLeod, Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity," Investigaciones de Historia Económica / Economic History Research, vol. 5, nº 13, 193-195.

Jose Maria Arribas, Lino Camprubí and David Pretel (2009): "Presentación Monográfico sobre Historia de la Ciencia," Empiria: Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales, 18 (1), 1-6.