Linda Newson - Business Interests, Global Networks, and the Trade in Enslaved Africans to Peru, 1580-1640: The Case of Manuel Bautista Pérez

Linda Newson is Emeritus Professor of Geography at King’s College London. A historical geographer who is interested in explaining geographical variations in the impact of colonial rule on indigenous peoples, she has widely published on the demographic change in Latin America and the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period, Portuguese slave trade to Spanish America, and the history of medicine in early colonial Spanish America. Her books include Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua (University of Oklahoma Press, 1987), Patterns of Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador (Oklahoma University Press, 1995), From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century (Brill, 2007), and Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima: Apothecaries, Science and Society (Brill, 2017).