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  • "Failed experiments: negotiating freedom in early Puerto Rico and Cuba." Colonial Latin American Review: Vol 29, No 1. April 2020
  • ed. with David Wheat. The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2019. ISBN   978-0803299573
  • Contesting Conquest: Indigenous Perspectives on the Spanish Occupation of Nueva Galicia, 1524–1545. Penn State University Press 2017. ISBN   978-0-271-07856-4
  • "Key to the Indies: Port Towns in the Spanish Caribbean: 1493-1550." The Americas 74:1(Jan. 2017):5-26.
  • The War for Mexico's West. Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550. Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2010. ISBN   978-0826344939
  • "The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America," The Americas vol. 63(4)2007, 587-614
  • (with Sarah Cline & Juan Javier Pescador), The Early History of Greater Mexico. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN   978-0130915436
  • Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. ISBN   978-0804736633
  • Editor, (with James J. Horn). "To Make America": European Emigration in the Early Modern Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. ISBN   978-0520325678
  • Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. ISBN   978-0520064942
  • Editor, (with James Lockhart). Provinces of early Mexico: variants of Spanish American regional evolution. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California, 1976. ISBN   978-0879030360
  • "Marriage, Family, and Ethnicity in the Early Spanish Caribbean," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser. 70:2(2013):226-250.
  • Notes

    1. "Bolton-Johnson Prize". The Conference on Latin American History. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
    2. "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.
    3. "History Department - Faculty". University of New Orleans. Archived from the original on September 1, 2006. Retrieved October 24, 2006.
    4. "Ida Altman". Directory of Faculty and Staff, University of Florida History Department. Archived from the original on July 2, 2007. Retrieved October 24, 2006.
    5. James Lockhart and Ida Altman, eds. The Provinces of Early Mexico: Variants of Spanish American Regional Evolution, UCLA Latin American Center Publications 1976, pp. 253-272
    6. Ida Altman and James J. Horn, eds.), "To Make America": European Emigration in the Early Modern Period, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
    7. Ida Altman, Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
    8. Ida Altman, The War for Mexico's West. Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550. Albuquerque: New Mexico, 2010.
    9. LSU Press, live author interview with Altman
    10. John Kicza, "New Interpretations of Colonial Mexico from the Conquest to Independence," Latin American Research Review vol. 40, Number 3, 2005, p. 334.
    Ida Louise Altman
    Born (1950-04-14) April 14, 1950 (age 74)
    Casablanca, Morocco
    NationalityAmerican
    AwardsHerbert E. Bolton Prize (1990)
    Academic background
    Alma mater University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, Johns Hopkins University

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