Ida Louise Altman | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 14, 1950 Casablanca, Morocco |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, Johns Hopkins University |
| Awards | Herbert E. Bolton Prize (1990) |
| Academic career | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Early Modern Spain, Latin America |
| Institutions | University of Florida, University of New Orleans, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Notable works | Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century |
Ida Louise Altman (born 1950) is an American historian of early modern Spain and Latin America. Her book Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century received the 1990 Herbert E. Bolton Prize of the Conference on Latin American History.[1] She is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Florida and served as Department Chair.
Altman is noted as a social historian for her primary research into migration patterns and individual migrations in the Spanish colonial period and the effects of source communities in the Old World on the economies and social development of destination communities in the New World, and vice versa.[2]
- ^ "Bolton-Johnson Prize". The Conference on Latin American History. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
- ^ "Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620". Stanford University Press. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012. Retrieved October 24, 2006.
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