Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century

"Altman's book will become the definitive work on the subject of Spanish migration to the New World."--Helen Nader, Indiana University "Its emphasis on close trans-Atlantic ties between Spaniards in Europe and America gives us a fresh way of looking at the whole settlement process. . . . There is nothing else in English or Spanish that deals with this topic in a similar way."--Stuart B. Schwartz, University of MinnesotaAltman, Ida is the author of 'Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century', published 1989 under ISBN 9780520064942 and ISBN 0520064941.