Kenneth Maxwell holds the Nelson and David Rockefeller Chair in Inter-American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the Western Hemisphere book reviewer for Foreign Affairs. Dr. Maxwell has taught at Yale, Princeton, and Columbia Universities and the University of Kansas. He was educated at Cambridge University and at Princeton.
"One of Maxwell's achievements in this volume of essays is to make
his own and others' work on Luso-Brazilian history and civilization
both interesting and accessible to general readers. But he has done
more than this. He has also shown why Luso-Brazilian history
matters, and how it can and should be more effectively integrated
into the broader picture of the history of Europe and the wider
world." -- The New York Review of Books
"Naked Tropics is the fruit of 40 years of transatlantic travels
and study, exposing the reader to many facets of the Luso-Brazilian
world and its most astute historical interpreter." -- Foreign
Affairs
"In these pages we are in the hands of a guide who truly owns his
field, and roams its expanses with easy authority and a genuine
wonder at the ways of our world." -- From the foreword by Fouad
Ajami, The Johns Hopkins University
"An extraordinary collection of essays by a historian in love. Ken
Maxwell explores the seductive mysteries of the tropics - and of
Brazil, in particular - with marvelous knowledge and a contagious
passion. From the origins of chocolate to the legacy of Empire to
the tragic fate of a grass-roots environmentalist, nothing escapes
Maxwell's omnivorous attention, and nowhere does his beautiful
clear prose fail to delight." -- Alma Guillermoprieto, Author of
Samba and The Heart That Bleeds
"Original and distinguished and much more than the sum of its very
considerable parts. A most impressive, enjoyable, and instructive
collection." -- James Dunkerley, University of London
"Naked Tropics makes Brazil come alive without any dress or
adornment save Ken Maxwell's wonderful writing, his extraordinary
knowledge of the country and its history, and his contagious
passion for its people and culture. Each of these sixteen essays is
a gem that illuminates and entertains all at once. Must reading for
anyone on the way to Brazil or just thinking about it." -- John H.
Coatsworth, Harvard University
"This is lively history, made more readable by fascinating glimpses
into the historian's own life and his passion for Brazil... more
importantly, Maxwell always keeps a firm eye on the bigger
picture... Maxwell outlines the issues faced by [President Luiz
Inácio] Lula in a brilliant essay on the 1990's entitled 'The Two
Brazils.'." -- Financial Times
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