David Pretel Bibliography

Monographs and edited books
Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018).

Technology and Globalisation: Networks of Experts in World History (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). With Lino Camprubí.

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, 2015). With Adrian Leonard.


Journal articles

‘The Maya Forest and Indigenous Resistance during the Caste War’, Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History, 14:1, February (2021).

‘Technology and the Fates of Three Caribbean Commodities’, History of Technology, Vol. 34 (2019), (London, Bloomsbury Academic), pp.127-148.

‘Reacciones en cadena: cambio tecnológico global y frontera forestal en la península de Yucatán (1850 -1950)’, Historia Mexicana, 276 (April, 2020).

‘Technology Transfer Networks in the First Industrial Age. The case of Derosne & Cail and the Sugar Industry (1812-1871)”, Business History, 62:7 (2020). With R. Castro and N. Fernández.

‘Technology in Latin American History: Perspectives, Scales and Comparisons’, History of Technology, Vol. 34 (2019), pp.1-22. With Ian Inkster.

‘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 (2019), pp. 1-22.

‘La Economía Política del Sistema Español de Patentes en Perspectiva Internacional, 1826-1902’, Investigaciones de Historia Económica – Economic History Research, 13.3 (2017), pp.199-200.

‘Patent Agents in the European Periphery: Spain 1826-1902’, History of Technology, 31 (2012), pp. 97-114.

‘Sugar Technology and Sub-Imperial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Cuba’, History of Technology, 30 (2010), pp. 47-62. With Patricio Sáiz.

‘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 (2009), pp. 59-83.

‘Presentación: introduction to Empiria special issue on History, Sociology and Philosophy of Science’, Empiria: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 18 (2009), pp. 11-16. With Lino Camprubí.


Book chapters

‘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, 2021). (Both English and French editions).

‘Ingenieros e historia: una introducción’, in Luz María Uhthoff y María Cecilia Zuleta (eds.): Ingenieros y tecnología en América Latina, 1870-1970 (Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México, 2020).

‘The global rise of patent expertise during the late 19th century’, in Pretel, D. and Camprubí, L., Technology and Globalisation (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018), pp.129-157. A previous version of this chapter was published as a Cambridge Working Paper in Economic and Social History (CWPESH no. 31).

‘Technological Encounters: Locating Experts in the History of Globalization’, in Pretel, D. and Camprubí, L., Technology and Globalisation (London: Palgrave-Macmillan 2018), pp. 1-26. With L. Camprubí.

‘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 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series, 2015), pp. 1-14. With A. Leonard.

‘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 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series, 2015), pp. 263-289. With N. Fernández.

‘Why Did Multinationals Patent in Spain? Several Historical Inquiries’, in Pierre-Yves Donzé and Shigehiro Nishimura (eds.), Organizing Global Technology Flows: Institutions, Actors, and Processes, (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 39-59. With P. Sáiz.

Book reviews and other publications
Review of Rajeshwari Dutt, ‘Empire on Edge’, Hispanic American Historical Review (forthcoming, 2021)

Review of A. Resendez, ‘La Otra Esclavitud’, Illes e Imperis, 22 (2020).

‘The global turn in the history of technology’, Palgrave-Macmillan author blog (August 2018). https://bit.ly/2yqiOAG

Review of A. Finucane, ‘The Temptations of Trade: Britain, Spain, and the Struggle for Empire’, Journal of American History, 102 (2017).

Review of E. Saccarelli and L. Varadarajan, ‘Imperialism Past and Present.’, Illes i Imperis – Islands and Empires, (15), (2016).

Review of E. Beatty, ‘Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico’, Economic History Research, 12 (3), (2016).

Review of D. Headrick, ‘Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present’, Economic History Research, 7 (3), (2011).

Review of C. MacLeod, ‘Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity’, Economic History Research, vol. 5, 13 (2009).

200 años de Patentes (OEPM, Ministerio de Industria, 2011). With P. Sáiz, et al.