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Baskes, Jeremy. Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

- Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.

Butler Greenfield, Amy. A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

Frey, James W. "Prickly Pears and Pagodas: The East India Company's Failure to Establish a Cochineal Industry in Early Colonial India." The Historian 74, no. 2 (2012): 241-266.

Hamnett, Brian R. Politics and Trade in Southern Mexico, 1750-1821. London: Cambridge University Press, 1971.

Marley, David F. Pirates and Privateers of the Americas. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1994.

Melillo, Edward. "Global Entomologies: Insects, Empires, and the 'Synthetic Age' in World History." Past & Present 223, no. 1 (2014): 233-270.

Padilla, Carmella and Barbara Anderson, eds. A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2015.

Pike, Ruth. Enterprise and Aventure: The Genoese in Seville and the Opening of the New World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.

Pomeranz, Kenneth and Steven Topik, The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400-The Present. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Schiebinger, Londa. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Topik, Steven, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.