L A Newson
Biographic Data
| ID | 2263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L A Newson |
| GIVEN NAMES | L A |
| FAMILY NAME | Newson |
| SIGNATURE | NEWSON L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5900-2316 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 336 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Dressing Elites in Early Seventeenth Century Lima, Peru
The Spanish crown used sumptuary laws and dress to support the replication of its hierarchical social structure and culture in the Americas, but this strategy faced the challenges of distance and the absence of suitable locally produced textiles. This led the clothing industry to be dependent on textile imports, resulting in its domination by merchants. Analysing bills drawn up by tailors for making clothes for elites, the article examines the co…
Forest, Field, and Fallow: Selections by William M. Denevan
Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820
How churches were adorned and their priests were clothed played important roles in Catholic evangelization in the New World. In this book Maya Stanfield-Mazzi examines the cloth that adorned churches and the vestments worn by the clergy. While this might seem a narrow topic of interest to specialists in textile history, it provides a window into many aspects of Spanish American colonial cultural and social history.To exalt God and attract adheren…
A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751-1820
Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
The title Secret Cures of Slaves is somewhat ambiguous: Is the book dealing with cures that slaves themselves practiced, or with the treatments that were applied to them? In fact it is dealing with both, though the emphasis is clearly on the latter, focusing on scientific experiments conducted by French and British physicians in the West Indies in the late eighteenth century. Londa Schiebinger is well known for her scholarly publications in this …
Piety, beeswax and the Portuguese African slave trade to Lima, Peru, in the early colonial period
The demand for beeswax for liturgical and medicinal purposes in the Americas vastly increased with the arrival of the Spanish. However, the absence of bees in early colonial Peru meant that this demand could not be met locally. Some beeswax was imported from Spain and from other American regions, but an alternative source emerged with the Portuguese slave trade from Senegambia where the product was abundant. Using the account books of one of the …
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 immunity to Old World diseases prior to Spanish arrival; conquest was thought to have been more benignt han what took place in the Americas because of more enlightened colonial policies introduced by Philip II. This book illuminates the demographic history of the Spanish Philippines in the sixteent…
The Improbable Conquest: Sixteenth-Century Letters from the Río de la Plata - edited by García Loaeza, Pablo and Garrett, Victoria L
Before Middle Passage: Translated Portuguese Manuscripts of Atlantic Slave Trading from West Africa to Iberian Territories, 1513–26
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. - Volume 69 Issue 4
Matthew James Crawford. The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800
Much has been written about the discovery and adoption of the bark of the cinchona tree, known as quina , for the treatment of malaria. Most of these studies take a traditional narrative approach beginning with Europeans’ first encounter with the product in the Andes in the early seventeenth century and tracing its development to its present day status as a global prophylactic. Matthew Crawford’s study covers a more limited time period, primarily…
The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru
At the turn of the eighteenth century, observers in Lima noted the domination of the medical profession by persons of African descent. Yet Afro-Peruvian medical practitioners are generally overlooked in narratives of the history of medicine in Peru, which have been constructed around the contributions and lives of a few notable creole doctors and scientists. Focusing on the period between 1760 and 1840, José R. Jouve Martín aims to rectify this o…
Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms - by Warren, Adam
Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala
Africans and Luso-Africans in the Portuguese Slave Trade on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Early Seventeenth Century
Using previously unknown account books, found in archives in Peru, of three New Christian Portuguese slave traders on the Upper Guinea Coast, this article examines the extent and nature of African and Luso-African involvement in the Atlantic trade during the early seventeenth century. Beads, textiles, and wine that figured most prominently among Portuguese imports were traded predominantly by Luso-Africans. Meanwhile, slaves were delivered in sma…
Bikol
This chapter examines the decline of populations in Bikol during the Spanish conquest and colonization. The Spanish first came in contact with the Bikol region in 1567, when Martín de Goiti and Mateo de Saz were dispatched by Miguel López de Legazpi to pacify the islands of Leyte, Panay, and Masbate. Two years later Legazpi dispatched another expedition led by Captain Luis Enríquez de Guzman and the Augustinian friar Alonso Jiménez. This chapter …
A World Apart?
This book examines the demographic impact of Spanish colonial rule on the Philippines. It shows that Spain's conquest and colonization of the Philippines brought fundamental changes to the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the islands. It argues that the Filipino population suffered a greater decline in the early Spanish period than has previously been thought and that the prolonged decline brought significant changes to Filipino …
Interior Luzon
This chapter examines the impact of Spanish colonial rule on the population of interior Luzon, with particular emphasis on groups living within the southern and central Cordillera. It begins with a brief review of the incidence and timing of Spanish contacts in the southern and central Cordillera, including the regions of Ituy and Paniqui, Italon and Abaca, and Igorot territory. It then considers the demographic history of the Igorot in Benguet, …
Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya - By Joel Wainwright
Appendices
Chapter Three. Time On The Coast
A number of scholars have suggested that mortality during captivity on the African coast was considerable and may even have exceeded that during the Middle Passage. 1 In 1576 Father Garcia Simes suggested that in the previous year 14,000 slaves had been bought and sold in Angola, of which 4,000 had died. The figure of 14,000 has been judged as exaggerated since the Portuguese had only just established a presence in the region, but the statement s…
Preliminary Materials
Glossary Of Spanish And Portuguese Terms
Acemita Small sweet bran cakes or biscuits Adorote Basket, pannier Aduanilla Customs tax Aguardiente/aguardente (Port.) Alcoholic spirit Alambre Brass or copper rods Alcabala Sales tax Alcalde/alcaide (Port.) Magistrate Almojarifazgo Valued added tax Alqueire Unit of dry measure, 13.8 dry litres Arepa Maize bread or roll Armada Armed fleet Arroba Weight equivalent to 25 pounds or 11.5 kilograms Asentista Person with whom an asiento was made Asien…
Chapter Eight. Medicines And Mortality
Medical practice in sixteenth-century Spain was dominated by the views of Galen and Hippocrates, which during the Renaissance received renewed interest as humanist scholars turned back to Ancient Greece for their inspiration and began to examine the original Greek sources.Galen and Hippocrates saw illness as a function of an imbalance in the humours or fluids-blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile-which, like all substances, were regarded as h…
Chapter Seven. Slave Doctors, Surgeons And Popular Healers
From the time the slaves were purchased in Cartagena to the time they were sold in Lima and other parts of Peru, the slave traders tried to maximise their profits by minimizing mortality and restoring sick slaves to health. They did this by providing sick slaves with special diets and through employing doctors and others to treat the sick. That said, in Cartagena the expenditure on medical care, which included the costs of doctors, medical equipm…
Chapter Six. The Final Passage
Pre-Columbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands
This is a collection of chapters by various authors on aspects of the demography of the Maya in Central America. It is the product of a session organized at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver Colorado in 1985. The focus is on quantitative data and the methods that can be applied to their analysis. Most of the contributions attempt to estimate the size of the Mayan lowland population before the Spanish conque…
From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century
From Capture to Sale illuminates the experience of African slaves transported to Spanish America by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. It draws on exceptionally rich accounts of one of the most prominent slave traders, Manuel Bautista Pérez. These papers cover the whole journey of the slaves from Africa, through Colombia and Panama to their final sale in Peru. The prime focus of the study is on the diet, health and medical care of t…
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 immunity to Old World diseases prior to Spanish arrival; conquest was thought to have been more benignt han what took place in the Americas because of more enlightened colonial policies introduced by Philip II. This book illuminates the demographic history of the Spanish Philippines in the sixteent…
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes
This book by William Denevan on Amazonia and the Andes is one of a series of three volumes on the cultivated landscapes of the Americas; the others are on Middle America and North America. The authors of all three volumes are geographers and, to differing degrees, they belong to a common intellectual tradition that developed under Carl O. Sauer in the Department of Geography at Berkeley. The tradition focused on the landscape whose morphology was…
The Population of the Amazon Basin in 1492: A View from the Ecuadorian Headwaters
Recent archaeological, ethnohistorical and ecological evidence has begun to challenge the view that 'civilizations' failed to develop in the Amazon basin due to limitations of the tropical forest environment. As a result, estimates of the native population in 1492 have become an issue of debate. These estimates are evaluated in the light of the ethnohistorical research on the Ecuadorian headwaters. Estimates are considered by examining estimated …
Medical Practice in Early Colonial Spanish America: A Prospectus
This paper outlines the current state of research on medical practice in early colonial Spanish America. It argues that medical practice in Spain was more diverse than generally supposed, and that this complicated the exchange that occurred between Native American, African and European medical traditions in the Americas. Control of medical practice in Spanish America was exercised not through the establishment of state institutions, but through t…
Aboriginal and Spanish Colonial Trinidad: A Study in Culture Contact
Trinidad in Transition: The Years after Slavery
When slavery ended in Trinidad in 1834 it marked the beginning of a turbulent period in the island's history. Donald Wood looks at the people and the land at the end of slavery and then describes the impact of the immigrants who came to stem the sudden labor shortage and the resulting tensions this produced
Africans and Luso-Africans in the Portuguese Slave Trade on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Early Seventeenth Century
Using previously unknown account books, found in archives in Peru, of three New Christian Portuguese slave traders on the Upper Guinea Coast, this article examines the extent and nature of African and Luso-African involvement in the Atlantic trade during the early seventeenth century. Beads, textiles, and wine that figured most prominently among Portuguese imports were traded predominantly by Luso-Africans. Meanwhile, slaves were delivered in sma…
Conquest, pestilence and demographic collapse in the early Spanish Philippines
Highland-lowland contrasts in the impact of old world diseases in early colonial Ecuador
The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras Under Spanish Rule
Basado en una riquisima documentacion de los archivos de varios paises, este libro no tiene antecedentes en la historiografia de Honduras. Sin duda, constituye una de las obras mas relevantes sobre la epoca colonial de America Central que se haya publicado en los ultimos anos
The Depopulation of Nicaragua in the Sixteenth Century
At the time of the Spanish conquest Nicaragua was inhabited by tribes and chiefdoms whose total population ran into hundreds of thousands: today only 4 per cent of the population is classified as Indian. With the exception of a short period in the eighteenth century, the Indian population has declined continuously since the sixteenth century, with the greatest losses being sustained during the first few decades of Spanish rule. Reconstructing the…
Cultural evolution: A Basic Concept for Human and Historical Geography
Slave mortality and African origins: A view from Cartagena, Colombia, in the early seventeenth century
Interest in the transatlantic slave-trade to the New World has focussed until recently on conditions in the Middle Passage and the factors that might account for the generally high levels of mortal
Disease and immunity in the pre-Spanish Philippines
Diets, Food Supplies and the African Slave Trade in Early Seventeenth-Century Spanish America
Much has been written about the spread of Old World crops and livestock in the Americas. However, very little is known, except in very general terms, about the availability of different foods, diets and nutrition, particularly among the common people, in different regions of Spanish America in the early colonial period. This derives in part from the shortage of evidence, but it also reflects the difficulties of researching these complex issues, w…
A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751-1820
Piety, beeswax and the Portuguese African slave trade to Lima, Peru, in the early colonial period
The demand for beeswax for liturgical and medicinal purposes in the Americas vastly increased with the arrival of the Spanish. However, the absence of bees in early colonial Peru meant that this demand could not be met locally. Some beeswax was imported from Spain and from other American regions, but an alternative source emerged with the Portuguese slave trade from Senegambia where the product was abundant. Using the account books of one of the …
Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala
Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Essays Reappraising the Guns and Germs Theories
The eight essays in this study reassess evidence about the plausibility of the widely accepted guns and germs theories which put forward firepower advantages and inadvertent disease importation as the two main causes of European imperial expansion overseas during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. All argue that these theories are important but oversimplified. The effectiveness of firepower and disease impacts on specific groups…
Labour in the Colonial Mining Industry of Honduras
Gold and silver production in Honduras probably never exceeded 5% of that produced in Spanish America at any one time during the colonial period, but it was of considerable importance to the local economy and employed a significant proportion of the total workforce. In Spanish America as a whole the types of labour that were employed in mining were extremely varied. During the early Conquest period Indian slaves were used to pan gold in the Antil…
Trinidad in Transition: The Years after Slavery
When slavery ended in Trinidad in 1834 it marked the beginning of a turbulent period in the island's history. Donald Wood looks at the people and the land at the end of slavery and then describes the impact of the immigrants who came to stem the sudden labor shortage and the resulting tensions this produced
Cultural evolution: A Basic Concept for Human and Historical Geography
Aboriginal and Spanish Colonial Trinidad: A Study in Culture Contact
Aboriginal and Spanish Colonial Trinidad: A Study in Culture Contact
Foreign Immigrants in Early Bourbon Mexico 1700-1760
Aboriginal and Spanish Colonial Trinidad: A Study in Culture Contact
Historical geography of Latin America. Papers in honor of Robert C. West
Latin America: An Introductory Survey
Labour in the Colonial Mining Industry of Honduras
Gold and silver production in Honduras probably never exceeded 5% of that produced in Spanish America at any one time during the colonial period, but it was of considerable importance to the local economy and employed a significant proportion of the total workforce. In Spanish America as a whole the types of labour that were employed in mining were extremely varied. During the early Conquest period Indian slaves were used to pan gold in the Antil…
The Depopulation of Nicaragua in the Sixteenth Century
At the time of the Spanish conquest Nicaragua was inhabited by tribes and chiefdoms whose total population ran into hundreds of thousands: today only 4 per cent of the population is classified as Indian. With the exception of a short period in the eighteenth century, the Indian population has declined continuously since the sixteenth century, with the greatest losses being sustained during the first few decades of Spanish rule. Reconstructing the…
Indian Population Patterns in Colonial Spanish America
Spanish colonialism was disastrous for the Indian population of America. By the end of the colonial period, all Indian groups who had come into contact with Europeans were less than half of the size they had been on the eve of Spanish conquest, and some had become extinct. Although the Indian population was reduced in size between 1492 and 1821, the demographic changes experienced by different Indian groups varied considerably. Some groups became…
Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Essays on the History of Ethnic Relations
Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: An Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1821
The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras Under Spanish Rule
Basado en una riquisima documentacion de los archivos de varios paises, este libro no tiene antecedentes en la historiografia de Honduras. Sin duda, constituye una de las obras mas relevantes sobre la epoca colonial de America Central que se haya publicado en los ultimos anos
Costa Rica before Coffee: Society and Economy on the Eve of the Export Boom
Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua
The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras under Spanish Rule
Lords of the Tiger Spirit: A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana 1498-1820
Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua
Pre-Columbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands
This is a collection of chapters by various authors on aspects of the demography of the Maya in Central America. It is the product of a session organized at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver Colorado in 1985. The focus is on quantitative data and the methods that can be applied to their analysis. Most of the contributions attempt to estimate the size of the Mayan lowland population before the Spanish conque…
Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador
Highland-lowland contrasts in the impact of old world diseases in early colonial Ecuador
Stolen Continents. The Indian Story
Between Orellana and Acuña: A lost century in the history of the North-West Amazon
Entre Orellana y Acuña: un sigo perdido en la historia del noroeste de la Amazonía Este trabajo estudia la historia del valle del Napo entre 1580 y 1636. Entre estas fechas el carácter, tamaño y distribución de los grupos indígenas cambiaron, pero las causas de estos cambios han sido obscuras puesto que ha sido presumido que había muy pocos contactos con los españoles. Sin embargo, los documentos del Archivo General de Indias en Sevilla y del arc…
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