Kenneth Maxwell
- Title
- Visiting Professor, History Department; Senior Fellow, DRCLAS, Director, Brazil Studies Program
- kmaxwell@fas.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617-496-4780
- Fax
- 617-496-2802
- Department
- History Department
- School
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Regions of Interest
- Latin American Region-wide or Comparative Work
- Countries of Interest
- Portugal, Brazil
- Areas of Expertise
- History
- Mailing Address
- History Department CGIS South Building Room 425 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138
- Office Location
- CGIS South 425
- Research Interest
- Atlantic history; Lusophone countries; 18th-century proto-nationalism in Brazil; contemporary Brazilian political developments; U.S.-Latin American relations; Portuguese imperial expansion and decolonization
- Web Page
- http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi?id=58, http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil
- Courses
- Fall 1750 Brazil Between Revolutions, 1776-1789: CC 1757 History of Latin America to 1825 Spring 1746 Contestation, Rebellion and Revolution in Brazil and Spanish South America (1770-1808): CC 1749 Turning Points in Brazilian History:
- Publications
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Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal , 1750-1808 ( New York and London : Routledge, 2004), revised edition
Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues ( New York and London : Routledge, 2003) <