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CANCELLED - Trials, Tests and Technology: Indigo Manufacture in Colonial Yucatan
03 March 2020, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
CANCELLED DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Institute of Historical Research and UCL Institute of the Americas
Location
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Seminar Room 105UCL Institute of the Americas51 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PN
This paper examines the early history of Colonial New World indigo, following the progression from artisanal, indigenous systems of extraction towards large-scale manufacturing, mapping evolving practices in New Spain and Guatemala. A rich body of surviving sources, including detailed accounts of cultivation and production, illuminate the earliest Spanish efforts to develop indigo into an export commodity – episodes of experimentation and innovation, the influence of pre-Hispanic models and the diffusion of new techniques.
About the Speaker
Adrianna Catena holds a doctorate in History from Oxford, and has been awarded fellowships by the Clarendon Fund, Balliol College, and Leverhulme Trust. As an historian, Adrianna has specialised in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic, the histories of trade, consumption, and material culture (especially in relation to dyes and textiles), from the Renaissance to 1800.