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- PhD Geography University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Linda Ann Newson, FBA, OBE, is director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Linda Newson's Published Works
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- From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century (2007) (99)
- Planning Latin America's capital cities 1850-1950 (2003) (71)
- The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras Under Spanish Rule (1987) (68)
- Indian survival in colonial Nicaragua (1987) (53)
- The Backbone of History: Patterns of Health and Nutrition in Prehistoric and Historic Ecuador (2002) (49)
- Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador (1996) (48)
- Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines (2009) (40)
- Slave mortality and African origins: a view from Cartagena, Colombia, in the early seventeenth century (2004) (39)
- The Demographic Impact of Colonization (2005) (32)
- Aboriginal and Spanish colonial Trinidad: A study in culture contact (1976) (28)
- Medical Practice in Early Colonial Spanish America: A Prospectus (2006) (28)
- Diets, Food Supplies and the African Slave Trade in Early Seventeenth-Century Spanish America* (2007) (27)
- The demographic collapse of native peoples of the Americas, 1492-1650 (1993) (26)
- The population of the Amazon basin in 1492: a view from the Ecuadorian headwaters. (1996) (26)
- New Geographies of Race and Racism (2009) (25)
- American pentimento: The invention of Indians and the pursuit of riches (2003) (24)
- Amazonia at the crossroads: The challenge of sustainable development (2000) (20)
- Indian Population Patterns in Colonial Spanish America (1985) (18)
- The Role of Disease (2009) (17)
- Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (2019) (15)
- Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Essays on the History of Ethnic Relations (1984) (15)
- The Depopulation of Nicaragua in the Sixteenth Century (1982) (13)
- Matthew James Crawford. The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800 (2016) (13)
- The slave-trading accounts of Manoel Batista Peres, 1613–1619: Double-entry bookkeeping in cloth money (2013) (12)
- A plague of sheep: Environmental consequences of the conquest of Mexico (1995) (12)
- AFRICANS AND LUSO-AFRICANS IN THE PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRADE ON THE UPPER GUINEA COAST IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY* (2012) (12)
- Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America (2005) (12)
- Highland-lowland contrasts in the impact of Old World diseases in early colonial Ecuador. (1993) (11)
- Labour in the Colonial Mining Industry of Honduras (1982) (10)
- Conquest, pestilence and demographic collapse in the early Spanish Philippines (2006) (7)
- SILVER MINING IN COLONIAL HONDURAS (1984) (7)
- Cultural evolution: a basic concept for human and historical geography (1976) (6)
- Disease and immunity in the pre-Spanish Philippines. (1999) (6)
- Between Orellana and Acuña: a lost century in the history of the North-West Amazon (1996) (6)
- The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere (2002) (5)
- Bartering for Slaves on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Early Seventeenth Centruy (2012) (4)
- Patters of Indian Depopulation in Early Colonial Ecuador (2003) (4)
- A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820 (2021) (3)
- Piety, beeswax and the Portuguese African slave trade to Lima, Peru, in the early colonial period (2018) (3)
- Upholding Justice: Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650–1750) (2007) (3)
- ReviewMemories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial GuatemalaMemories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala, Laura E. Matthew, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill (2012), xiii + 318 pages, US$45 hardcover (2014) (3)
- Foreign immigrants in spanish America: Trinidad's colonisation experiment (1979) (3)
- Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru, Apothecaries, Science and Society (2017) (3)
- Historical geography of Latin America. Papers in honor of Robert C. West: William V. Davidson and James J. Parsons, (Baton Rouge: The School of Geoscience, The Louisiana State University, Geoscience and Man, vol. XXI, 1980. Pp. 163. $14·00) (1982) (2)
- Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes (review) (2002) (2)
- Pathogens, peoples and places: geographical variations in the impact of diseases in early Spanish America and the Philippines (2001) (2)
- Supervivencia indígena en la Nicaragua colonial (2021) (2)
- The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas: Mesoamerica, vol II, part 1-2 (2001) (2)
- Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America (2020) (2)
- Report on the State of UK-Based research on Latin America and the Caribbean (2014) (2)
- The Longue Durée in Filipino Demographic History: The Role of Fertility Prior to 1800 (2015) (1)
- Mexico City through History and Culture (2009) (1)
- William L. Sherman: Forced Native Labour in Sixteenth Century Central America (Lincoln, Nebraska and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1979 £12.95). Pp. 495. (1980) (1)
- The English (2022) (1)
- J. Benedict Warren: The Conquest of Michoacán: The Spanish Domination of the Tarascan Kingdom in Western Mexico, 1521–1530 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985, $27.50). Pp. xv + 367. (1986) (1)
- The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru (2016) (1)
- Skeletal evidence for health in ancient Ecuador (1998) (1)
- David Henige, Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998), pp. xi+532, $47.95 hb. (2000) (1)
- Alchemy and Chemical Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru (2020) (1)
- The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800 by Matthew James Crawford (review) (2017) (1)
- Review of The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru. By José R. Jouve Martín. (2016) (0)
- Dana Velasco Murillo, Mark Lentz and Margarita R. Ochoa (eds.), City Indians in Spain's American Empire: Urban Indigenous Society in Colonial Mesoamerica and Andean South America, 1530–1810 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012), pp. xv+244, £55.00, hb. (2013) (0)
- Chapter Three. Time On The Coast (2007) (0)
- Demands on Indian Lands, Labor, and Production (2022) (0)
- Ronald Spores (vol. ed.) with the assistance of Patricia A. Andrews: Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians. Volume 4. Ethnohistory . (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1986, $40.00). Pp. vii + 232. (1987) (0)
- Robert H. Jackson, Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687–1840 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994), pp. xii + 228, $29.95. (1995) (0)
- Manila and Tondo (2009) (0)
- Adriaan C. Van Oss: Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala, 1524–1821 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, £27.50). Pp. xx + 248. (1987) (0)
- Chapter Seven. Slave Doctors, Surgeons And Popular Healers (2007) (0)
- Review of García Loaeza, Pablo and Victoria L. Garrett eds. (2015) The Improbable Conquest: Sixteenth-Century Letters from the Río de la Plata. The Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA). (2016) (0)
- S. L. Cline: Colonial Culbuacan, 1580–1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986, US $29.95). Pp. xviii + 258. (1988) (0)
- A World Apart (2009) (0)
- Cultural Changes in Western and Central Honduras (2022) (0)
- Foreign Immigrants in Early Bourbon Mexico 1700-1760. (1980) (0)
- Numbers from nowhere: The American Indian contact population debate (2000) (0)
- Books Shipped from Spain by the Apothecary Juan Sánchez in 1591 (2017) (0)
- Newson (2019) Review of Secret Cures of Slaves by Londa Schiebinger (2019) (0)
- Trading Medicines and Materia Medica (2017) (0)
- Interpreting the Evidence (2009) (0)
- Robert C. West: Carl Sauer's Fieldwork in Latin America (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, 1979, $11.50). Pp. 165. (1981) (0)
- Patricia Seed, American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches (Minniapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), pp. xii+299, £24.50 hb. (2003) (0)
- John K. Chance: Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978, $14.00). Pp. 250. (1979) (0)
- Book reviews : Mathewson, K., editor, 1993: Culture, form and place: essays in cultural and historical geography. Geoscience and Man, Vol. 32. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University. xxiv + 360 pp. US$24.95 paper. ISBN: 0 938909 55 X (1996) (0)
- Woodville K. Marshall (ed.): The Colthurst Journal (Millwood, New York: KTO Press, 1977,$12.50). Pp. 255. (1979) (0)
- Aboriginal Population (2022) (0)
- Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood and Robert Haskett (eds.), Indian Women of Early Mexico (Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), pp. x+486. $29.95, hb. (1999) (0)
- The Latin American colonial experience (2014) (0)
- Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World - edited by Brockey, Liam M. (2011) (0)
- Ruiz de Alarcón Hernando: Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain (trans. & ed. J. R. Andrews & R. Hassig) (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984, $48.50). Pp. xxvi + 432. (1985) (0)
- On the wings of time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru (2010) (0)
- Demographic Change in the Early Spanish Philippines (2009) (0)
- Colonial Realities and Population Decline (2009) (0)
- Forest, Field, and Fallow: Selections by William M. Denevan (2021) (0)
- Medicines: Empire, Science and Society (2017) (0)
- Ilocos and Pangasinan (2009) (0)
- Historical Atlas of Central America, Carolyn Hall, Héctor Pérez Brignoli, John V. Cotter. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman (2003), xiv+321 pages, $99.95 hardback. (2005) (0)
- Review of Crawford, The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800, for the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2016) (0)
- Colonial Medicine in Spanish Philippines (2013) (0)
- Cultural Changes in Eastern Honduras (2022) (0)
- Jonathon R. Barton, Political Geography of Latin America (London and New York: Routledge, 1997) pp. xvi+243, £45.00, £14.99 pb. (1998) (0)
- The Longue Durée in Filipino Demographic History (2015) (0)
- Book Review: Farm and Factory: The Jesuits and the Development of Agrarian Capitalism in Colonial Quito, 1600–1767 (1985) (0)
- Conquest and Depopulation before 1600 (2009) (0)
- Learning to Make Medicines (2017) (0)
- Philip D. Curtin: The rise and fall of the plantation complex: essays in Atlantic history . xi, 222 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1990, £27.50 (paper £9.95). (1991) (0)
- Conquest, Slaves, and Gold (2022) (0)
- Kevin Gosner, Soldiers of the Virgin: The Moral Economy of a Colonial Maya Rebellion (Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1992), pp. xiv + 227, $29.95. (1993) (0)
- Spanish Medical Practice in the Early Spanish Philippines (2013) (0)
- David J. Robinson, Collaguas II. Lari Collaguas: economía, sociedad y población, 1604–1605. Homenaje a Franklin Pease G. Y. (Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Syracuse, NY: University of Syracuse, 2003), pp. cxii+514, pb. (2005) (0)
- The Social World of Apothecaries (2017) (0)
- Estate Agriculture (2022) (0)
- P. A. Urban and E. M. Schortman (eds.): The Southeast Maya Periphery (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986, $37.50). Pp. 407. (1987) (0)
- The Chiefdoms (2022) (0)
- The early epoch of Leon Viejo: A history of the first capital of Nicaragua (2000) (0)
- Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820 (2022) (0)
- Christopher H. Lutz, Santiago de Guatemala, 1541–1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience (Norman Oklahoma and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), pp. xx + 346, $37.95. (1996) (0)
- The Return of Epidemics: Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth Century: Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth Century (2002) (0)
- Norman B. Schwartz, Forest Society: A Social History of Petén, Guatemala (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), pp. xiv + 367, £13.25, pb. (1992) (0)
- The Improbable Conquest: Sixteenth‐Century Letters from the Río de la Plata ‐ edited by García Loaeza, Pablo and Garrett, Victoria L. (2017) (0)
- The Tribes (2022) (0)
- Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms ‐ by Warren, Adam (2014) (0)
- Towns and Cities (2022) (0)
- Book Review: Society in time and space: a geographical perspective on change (2000) (0)
- David Block, Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon: Native Tradition, Jesuit Enterprise and Secular Policy in Moxos 1660–1880, (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), pp. xii + 240, £28.50. (1995) (0)
- Review of Gregory T Cushman, Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History, (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013) (2016) (0)
- Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570 (London, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987), PP. xiii + 245. (1989) (0)
- Celia Cussen, Black Saint of the Americas: The Life and Afterlife of Martín de Porres (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. xvi + 292, £60.00, hb. (2015) (0)
- The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America Vol. 1 The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century (2006) (0)
- Nancy M. Farriss: Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1984, Cloth £55.40; paperback £13.90). Pp. xii + 585. (1985) (0)
- Crawford prefers to see the relationship of science and empire as one of “coproduction.” This volume differs in approach from standard accounts of the history of cinchona (2016) (0)
- The Cultural and Demographic Cost of Conquest, 1502 to 1550 (2022) (0)
- Before Middle Passage: Translated Portuguese Manuscripts of Atlantic Slave Trading from West Africa to Iberian Territories, 1513–26. Trevor P. Hall, ed. and trans. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xvi + 300 pp. $119.95. (2016) (0)
- John C. Super, Food, Conquest and Colonization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988), pp. viii + 133. (1989) (0)
- David Hurst Thomas, Columbian Consequences: Volume 3 The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective (washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993), PP. xxii + 592, $45.00. (1993) (0)
- Pampanga and Bulacan (2009) (0)
- The Indian Population, 1550 to 1821 (2022) (0)
- Ida Altman, The War of Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524–1550 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2010), pp. xx+340, $28.95, pb. (2012) (0)
- Books Shipped from Spain to Doctor Melchor de Amusco in Nombre de Dios, 1584 (2017) (0)
- John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada and José Pardo-Tomás, eds, Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire (2016) (0)
- Review: The Return of Epidemics: Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth Century (2002) (0)
- Review of John Slater, Marı´aluz Lopez-Terrada and Jose´ Pardo-Tomas, eds, Medical Cultures of the EarlyModern Spanish Empire, Ashgate: Farnham, 2014; 326 pp., 9 figures, 1 table; 9781472428134,£70.00 (hbk) (2016) (0)
- Wars and Missionaries in the Seventeenth-Century Visayas (2009) (0)
- Demographic Catastrophe in Sixteenth-Century Honduras (2019) (0)
- Counting the Cost of Conquest and Colonization (2022) (0)
- UCLA historical journal (2012) (0)
- The Missions (2022) (0)
- Glossary Of Spanish And Portuguese Terms (2007) (0)
- Beyond the Pathogen Cultural Influences on the Impact of Epidemics Viewed from History (2020) (0)
- Chapter Two. The Acquisition Of Slaves (2007) (0)
- Selecting Materia Medica (2017) (0)
- Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: An Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1821@@@Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: An Historical Geography of the Cuchumatan Highlands, 1500-1821 (1986) (0)
- Chapter Six. The Final Passage (2007) (0)
- Book reviews: Feature reviews (1984) (0)
- Book reviews. (1980) (0)
- Review of Before the Middle Passage: Translated Portuguese Manuscripts of Atlantic Slave Trading from West Africa to Iberian Territories, 1513–26, Ed. by Trevor P. Hall. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. (2018) (0)
- Aboriginal and Spanish Colonial Trinidad: A Study in Culture Contact. (1977) (0)
- Chapter Five. In The Barracoons Of Cartagena (2007) (0)
- Book Review: The mapping of New Spain: indigenous cartography and the maps of the relaciones geograÂficas (1998) (0)
- Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya – By Joel Wainwright (2009) (0)
- Chapter Eight. Medicines And Mortality (2007) (0)
- Chapter One. A Bureaucratic Business (2007) (0)
- Indian Cultures and Environments (2022) (0)
- List of Materia Medica Found in Pharmacies in Spain and Lima (2017) (0)
- Latin America: An Introductory Survey (1982) (0)
- Patrick J. Carroll, Blacks in Colonial Veracruz: Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1993), pp. xv + 240, £35.00. (1993) (0)
- Chapter Four. The Middle Passage (2007) (0)
- John V. Lombardi: People and Places in Colonial Venezuela (Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1976, $25.00). Pp. 484. (1977) (0)
- Review of Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land, by Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor; Death and the... (1994) (0)
- In Brief: Politics (1999) (0)
- Brokers of Change (2012) (0)
- More to Come@@@Revista Geografica de America Central. (1987) (0)
- Patterns of Conquest and Indian Populations (2022) (0)
- W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz, Demography and Empire: A Guide to the Population History of Spanish Central America, 1500–1821 (Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 1995), pp. xv + 190, £37.00. (1996) (0)
- The Medicines Business (2017) (0)
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