Naked Tropics

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-94576-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: New World in the Atlantic World

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maxwell, Kenneth

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ajami, Fouad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Fouad Ajami-Blame it on Rio: The Historical Vocation of Kenneth Maxwell
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
1. First Encounters
2. ¡Adiós Columbus!
3. Chocolate
4. Pirate Democracy
5. Hegemonies Old and New
6. The Spark: the Amazon and the Suppression of the Jesuits
7. The Idea of the Luso-Brazilian Empire
8. Why Was Brazil Different? The Contexts of Independence
9. The Odd Couple: Jefferson and the Abbé
10. A Story of Slavery, Sex and Mammon
11. The Tragedy of the Amazon
12. Chico Mendes
13. The Two Brazils
14. Macao: Shadow Land
15. Heroes and Traitors
16. Orfeu
Sources of Publications
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.