Professor Linda Newson
Contact details
- Name:
- Professor Linda Newson
- Position:
- Director
- Institute:
- Institute for the Study of the Americas
- Location:
- Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
- Phone:
- 020 7862 8825
- Email address:
- linda.newson@sas.ac.uk; alegria.perez@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- http://americas.sas.ac.uk/
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Latin America and the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period; the impact of colonial rule on indigenous societies; the Portuguese slave trade to Spanish America; and the history of medicine in early colonial Spanish America.
- Languages:
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Spoken Written Spanish Good Good
- Publication Details
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Related publications/articles:
Date Details 01-Jan-2011 Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines. 2009 Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 420 pp. (Philippine edition, Ateneo University Press, 2011)
01-Jan-2009 Mexico City through History and Culture. 2009 (edited with John P. King) London: British Academy/OUP.
01-Jan-2007 From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century 2007 (with Susie Minchin) Brill, Leiden. 372 pp.
01-Jan-1995 Patterns of Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador 1995 Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press. 505 pp.
01-Jan-1987 Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua 1987 University of Oklahoma Press. 466pp. Published in Spanish as Supervivencia indígena en la Nicaragua colonial. Managua: LeaGrupo Editorial, in press.
01-Jan-1986 The Cost of Conquest: Indian Societies in Honduras under Spanish Rule Boulder 1986 Westview Press. 375 pp. Published in Spanish as El costo de la conquista. Tegucigalpa: Guaymuras Press, 1992.
01-Jan-1976 Aboriginal and Spanish Colonial Trinidad: A Study in Culture Contact 1976 London and New York: Academic Press. 354 pp.
- Professional Affiliations
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Professional affiliations:
Name Activity International Engagement Committee of the British Academy Member Latin American and Caribbean Panel at the British Academy Chair Peer Review College of the AHRC Strategic Reviewer and Member Research Committee of the Royal Geographical Society Member Advisory Panel on the Endangered Archives, sponsored by Arcadia, at the British Library Member - Relevant Events
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Related events:
Date Details 01-Jan-2012 Materia medica, boticarios and the medicine trade in Lima in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries 54th International Congress of Americanists, Vienna
01-Jan-2011 Fertility: A neglected dimension of demographic change in the pre- and early Spanish Philippines KILTV, Leiden
01-Jan-2011 Medical Practice in Spain and Early Spanish America: the role of apothecaries Queen’s University, Belfast.
01-Jan-2010 Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines International Economic History Conference, Amsterdam
