Kenneth Maxwell
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Kenneth Maxwell is Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, will be published this month. (July 2003)
From the Review
July 3, 2003: Lula's Surprise
December 5, 2002: Brazil: Lula's Prospects
May 14, 1998: The Dirty War
A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture by Marguerite Feitlowitz
March 6, 1997: Pirate Democracy
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly
September 19, 1996: The Road to Kisses
The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe, by Michael D. Coe
June 10, 1993: 'The Buried Mirror' (letter)
January 28, 1993: ¡Adiós Columbus!
The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World by Carlos Fuentes
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton, with April Shelford, by Nancy Siraisi
The Times Atlas of World Exploration: 3,000 Years of Exploring, Explorers, and Mapmaking edited by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 by Alfred Crosby
The Early Spanish Main by Carl Ortwin Sauer, foreword by Anthony Pagden
The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 edited by William M. Denevan, foreword by W. George Lovell
The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus by Irving Rouse
Disease and Demography in the Americas edited by John W. Verano, edited by Douglas H. Ubelaker
Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America edited by Luciano Formisano, foreword by Garry Wills, translated by David Jacobson
Portugal and the Discovery of America: Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese by Alfredo Pinheiro Marques
L'expansion Portugaise dans la littérature latine de la renaissance by Luis de Matos
The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus by Valerie I.J. Flint
Isabel The Queen: Life and Times by Peggy K. Liss
The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
November 7, 1991: Was Tavora There? (letter)
June 13, 1991: Fate of the Amazon (letter)
March 28, 1991: The Mystery of Chico Mendes
Into the Amazon: The Struggle for the Rain Forest by Augusta Dwyer
The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest by Andrew Revkin
Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in His Own Words additional material by Tony Gross
The World Is Burning by Alex Shoumatoff
The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by Susanna Hecht, by Alexander Cockburn
The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rainforest by Adrian Cowell
O Empate contra Chico Mendes by Márcio Souza
Rural Violence in Brazil: February 1991 An Americas Watch Report
March 7, 1991: The Tragedy of the Amazon
The Last Rain Forests: A World Conservation Atlas edited by Mark Collins, foreword by David Attenborough
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide by Louise H. Emmons, illustrated by François Feer
The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by Susanna Hecht, by Alexander Cockburn
World Resources, 1990–1991: A Guide to the Global Environment a Report by the World Resources Institute
Government Policies and Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Region by Dennis J. Mahar
Developing Amazonia: Deforestation and Social Conflict in Brazil's Carajás Programme by Anthony L. Hall
The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rain Forest by Adrian Cowell
Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush by David Cleary
Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest edited by Anthony B. Anderson
December 11, 1975: From a Portuguese Prison (letter)
November 13, 1975: Postscript from Portugal
August 7, 1975: Letters (letter)
May 29, 1975: Portugal Under Pressure
April 17, 1975: The Hidden Revolution in Portugal
June 13, 1974: Portugal: A Neat Revolution
Portugal e o Futuro: Análise da Conjuntura Nacional [Portugal and the Future] by António de Spínola
Books by Kenneth Maxwell
Pombal, Paradox of the Enlightenment (1995)
The Making of Portuguese Democracy (1995)
The New Spain: From Isolation to Influence (1994)
Soviet Dilemmas in Latin America: Pragmatism Or Ideology? (1989)
Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-180 (1973)