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)
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Brazil: Lula’s Prospects
December 5, 2002
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The Dirty War
May 14, 1998
A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
by Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Pirate Democracy
March 6, 1997
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly
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The Road to Kisses
September 19, 1996
The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe, by Michael D. Coe
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‘The Buried Mirror’
June 10, 1993
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¡Adiós Columbus!
January 28, 1993
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, 9001900 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 15001700: A Political and Economic History by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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Was Tavora There?
November 7, 1991
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Fate of the Amazon
June 13, 1991
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The Mystery of Chico Mendes
March 28, 1991
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
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The Tragedy of the Amazon
March 7, 1991
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, 19901991: 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
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From a Portuguese Prison
December 11, 1975
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Postscript from Portugal
November 13, 1975
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Letters
August 7, 1975
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Portugal Under Pressure
May 29, 1975
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The Hidden Revolution in Portugal
April 17, 1975
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Portugal: A Neat Revolution
June 13, 1974
Portugal e o Futuro: Análise da Conjuntura Nacional [Portugal and the Future] by António de Spínola