...David Northrup Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database . Edited by Eltis David and Richardson David . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2008 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Index . xiii , 377 pp. Cloth , $90.00 . Copyright 2010 by Duke...

...Anne-Emanuelle Birn; Raúl Necochea López Abstract This essay analyzes the current state of the field of history of health and medicine in Latin America and proposes questions and areas for further investigation. Using a variety of databases to identify relevant historiographical sources from across...

... pioneered an approach—a philosophy, really—that grew from her commitment to spreading awareness of how African slavery shaped history and the world we have inherited. Her approach centered on data sharing. Working for decades in archives, she created a database by extracting information about named enslaved...

...Rodney D. Anderson; Tamara Spike A variable contains a specific type of information on each of the 127,530 individuals in the combined database. The complete list of variables is available at the GCP Web site. 28 There are four major variable categories: literal variables, constructed...

...Mariza Soares; Jane Landers; Paul E. Lovejoy; Andrew McMichael 4 David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbet S. Klein, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database , CD-ROM (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999). 3 Mariza de Carvalho Soares, Devotos da cor...

...) and the sophisticated interdisciplinary studies on political elites. The other chapters in the volume address anthropology, art and architecture, education, geography, performing arts, religion, and sociology. A welcome addition is Harold Colson and Peter Stem’s chapter on databases. They point out that “the 1990s...

... as a narrative of the novelty, and after about 1600 as a description of a new society. In order to evidence these trends, Slichter van Bath used a database of 2,642 publications and 244 tables. The author liberally manipulates his tables to discuss the background of the authors, the themes of their accounts...

... profound experience as a scholar of Latin American economic history was supported by a select team of scholar-consultants, commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank, and a massive project to compile and assemble an internally consistent database of economic and social indicators for all Latin...

... reproductions of two codices, with helpful basic commentary and a searchable database of personages and motifs. The limitation of Mesolore , and this is freely admitted throughout the work, is the concentration on the Postclassic (ca. a.d. 900–1520) Mixteca area of Oaxaca for the bulk of the more in-depth...

... in the early 1990s and now available in the first of two CD-ROMs — is a model for future electronic databases of historical documents and records. The data are packaged for easy use by those with no special training in database software or statistics procedures. Nonspecialists will welcome their discussion...

... in terms of its handling of data. Central to this study is the use of inventories from the three mining districts, Diamantina, Mariana/Vila Rica, and São João del Rei/São José del Rei. Close to 10,000 inventories were used to produce a database of almost 112,000 slaves extending over the period from 1713...

... a massive database from rural property tax assessments for ten municipalities during four periods between 1905 and 1935. They also relied heavily on publicly available population samples, known as the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), which are drawn from the 1910, 1920, and 1930 US censuses...

.... To this formidable task Gwendolyn Midlo Hall brings considerable expertise in the history of slavery in Louisiana (including an impressive archival database used in the book’s many tables and appendix); familiarity with the relevant literature on slavery, including that in Spanish and French; and an impressively...

... in English. She created two main databases: one with the names of over 280 Indigenous converts to Seventh-day Adventism connected to the mission, and one with “a comprehensive catalog of just about eight hundred documents categorized according to place, date, subject, and the names of the Indians who appear...

..., Department of Demography, maintain an online historical mortality database. This excellent source for nineteenth- and twentieth-century age, sex, birth, death, and life-expectancy tables for many European and American countries is available at http://www.mortality.org . Along with INED, these two...

... Christopher; TNA, HCA 30/796, actas de los Tribunales del Vicealmirantazgo de Tórtola y Trinidad. Los libros de actas son una fuente nueva y más precisa, si bien contienen lagunas importantes que se han complementado con Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade–Database, SlaveVoyages, acceso 22 oct. 2021, https...

... – 1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007), 56 (on language), 327 – 31 (on Christianity). 45 Voyages Database ; AGN-A, IX, 2-2-1. See Studer, Cuadro XV on slave vessels. 46 Ferreira, “Transforming Atlantic Slaving,” 202; Borucki, “Slave Trade to the Río de la Plata”; Mariana Pinho...

.... This paragraph builds on Klooster, “Slavenvaart,” 122, 124–25; Klooster, Illicit Riches , 41–43, 59–61, 65–67, 73–74, 105–9; Antunes and Silva, “Amsterdam Merchants,” 22–24. 52. For the 1626–40 period, see Voyages Database , http://www.slavevoyages.org/voyages/ffCyWuJJ . For the 1648–62 period, see...

... condemnation of Albadán by the now famous indigenous writer Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. She then supplements these two important databases with information gleaned from a vast number of documents held in the archives of Lima and Seville to tell the story of a depraved priest and the destruction that he...

... information recovered by salvage operations. Marken addresses this issue in his introduction. Without condoning the practice of treasure hunting, he advocates the cautious use of salvaged material as part of the database for studies of material culture. Frequently, he underlines the damage done...