Ida Altman

Ida Louise Altman (born 1950) is an American historian of colonial Spain and Latin America. Her book Emigrants and Society received the 1990 Herbert E. Bolton Prize of the Conference on Latin American History.^[1] Dr. Altman is professor of history at the University of Florida.

Dr. 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]

Life and education

Ida Altman was born in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; a master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin; and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. After her formal education she lived in New Orleans where she was professor of history and University Research Professor at the University of New Orleans and chair of the history department until shortly after Hurricane Katrina.^[3] Dr. Altman joined the faculty of the University of Florida in August 2006^[4] and became chair of the history department in August 2010.

Books

Books written or edited by Ida Altman include:

• Altman, Ida, "The War for Mexico's West. Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550". Albuquerque: New Mexico, 2010.
• Altman, Ida, Sarah Cline & Juan Javier Pescador. The Early History of Greater Mexico. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.
• Altman, Ida. Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
• Altman, Ida & James J. Horn (eds.). "To Make America": European Emigration in the Early Modern Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
• Altman, Ida. Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
• Lockhart, James & Ida Altman (eds.). Provinces of early Mexico: variants of Spanish American regional evolution. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California, 1976.

Notes

1. ↑ "Book Information - Transatlantic ties in the Spanish empire: Brihuega, Spain & Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620". BiblioVault. Retrieved 2006-10-24. 
2. ↑ "Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620". Stanford University Press. Retrieved 2006-10-24. 
3. ↑ "History Department - Faculty". University of New Orleans. Archived from the original on 2006-09-01. Retrieved 2006-10-24. 
4. ↑ "Ida Altman". Directory of Faculty and Staff, University of Florida History Department. Retrieved 2006-10-24. 

External links

• Conference on Latin American History
• University of Florida Department of History