Directory of Experts
Details for Dr Caroline Williams
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Caroline Williams |
| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies |
| Department | Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
Office. To help us deal with your request, please mention the Directory of Experts when contacting the Public Relations Office. work+44 (0)117 331 8092 email: public-relations@bristol.ac.uk |
| Qualifications | B.A., Ph.D.(Warw.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | colonial Spanish America colonization of indigenous groups Atlantic World Portuguese America indigenous peoples Spanish colonization Miskito Coast |
| Areas of expertise | I am a historian of colonial Spanish America, and I have a particular interest in the colonization of indigenous groups on the frontiers of Spain’s empire in the Americas. Building on my previous research, as well as my current interest in exploring the significance and usefulness of the concept of the ‘Atlantic World’ for historians of Spanish and Portuguese America, I have recently begun work on a new project examining the nature and consequences of European contacts with indigenous peoples on the Miskito Coast, focusing particularly on Spanish colonization efforts in the late eighteenth century. |