Naked Tropics

Essays on Empire and Other Rogues
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-94577-6
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 660 g

Reihe: New World in the Atlantic World

In this volume distinguished historian Kenneth Maxwell collects some of his most significant writings, following Portugal's imperial journey from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and from the coast of Asia to the mouth of the Red Sea. Maxwell takes the reader on a lively journey from Macao to the Amazon forests-each piece in the collection is a reflection of the authors driving passions. Major themes he examines are: the peopling of the Americas, the shaking up of continents, the spirit that took a precocious Portugal into its imperial venture, the play between Portugal's' extensive imperial reach into Africa and Asia and the Americas, and the rise of Brazil and its tumultuous history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maxwell, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

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.