Ida Altman

Historian, Academic

1950 –

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Who is Ida Altman?

Ida Louise Altman 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. 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.

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Born
1950
United States of America
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • University of Michigan
Employment
  • University of Florida

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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