Linda A. Newson

Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador

"Historical demography for 16th- and 17th-century Ecuador. The book's regional framework reveals major differences in mortality rates. Calculates that...

Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines

Scholars have long assumed that Spanish colonial rule had only a limited demographic impact on the Philippines. Filipinos, they believed, had acquired...

From Capture to Sale

The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century

Based on exceptionally rich private papers of Portuguese slave traders, this study provides unique insight into the diet, health and medical care of s...

Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru

Apothecaries, Science and Society

Based on extensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Italy, Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru examines how apothecaries in Lima were t...

Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua

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Aboriginal and Spanish Colonial Trinidad

A Study in Culture Contact

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