| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Ida Altman. Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560–1620. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2000. Pp. viii, 254. $45.00.

With this monograph, Ida Altman completes her innovative conspectus of postconquest culture in specific regions of sixteenth-century Spain and New Spain, begun with her Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and America in the Sixteenth Century (1989). Her oeuvre fuses two currents in the social historiography of Spain's sixteenth-century America stimulated by James Lockhart's The Men of Cajamarca: A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru (1972) and Enrique Otte's publications, notably his edition of Cartas privadas de emigrantes a Indias, 1540–1616 (1988) with Guadalupe Albi Romero. Altman's first book explored the repercussions of the American conquest on Extremadura in the metropole; here her optic is the reverse: how hundreds of Brihuega emigrants from central Spain began to adapt to conditions in Puebla about fifty years after Spain's "encounter" with New Spain. This is ground-level social history based on careful exploitation of manuscript materials, notably in repositories of Puebla and Mexico City, Seville, and Madrid. . . .

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