Ruth Pike

The Author: Ruth Pike is Professor Emerita, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. She is the author of Enterprise and Adventure: The Genoese in Seville and the Opening of the New World; Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century; and Penal Servitude in Early Modern Spain, as well as many articles in scholarly journals.

The Author: Ruth Pike is Professor Emerita, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. She is the author of Enterprise and Adventure: The Genoese in Seville and the Opening of the New World; Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century; and Penal Servitude in Early Modern Spain, as well as many articles in scholarly journals. See less