Dr Caroline Williams

Research summary

My principal research interests are in the colonisation of indigenous groups on the frontiers of Spain’s empire in the Americas, and cultural and commercial exchanges across imperial boundaries in the Atlantic World. I am currently working on a new study of indigenous-European relations on the contested frontier of Atlantic Honduras and Nicaragua, framed by the Anglo-Spanish conflicts of 1779-1783 and 1796-1802. I am also working on a biography of Robert Hodgson, adventurer, contrabandist, and one-time Superintendent of the ‘Mosquito Shore’.

Teaching

I teach on the following undergraduate units:

• HISP20081 ‘Spiritual Children’: Daily Life in the Catholic Missions of Colonial ...

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Recent publications

• Williams, C 2009, ‘Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World: People, Products and Practices on the Move’. Ashgaste
• Williams, CA 2007, ‘Opening new frontiers in colonial Spanish American history: new perspectives on indigenous-Spanish interactions on the margins of empire’.

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