“By far the best treatment of this period of Brazilian history which I have read in any language.”
C. R. Boxer


“With its solid research core and broad vistas, Maxwell’s is in many ways a model study.”
Richard M. Morse - American Historical Review


“Because of the importance of the subject, the breadth of scope, and the considerable skill of the author, scholars will value this volume. That would be enough, but the challenging hypotheses put forward … are sure to mark its publication as an historiographical event, and a point of departure for future work in this field.”
Stuart B. Schwartz - Hispanic American Historical Review


“Kenneth Maxwell vividly describes thoughts and actions in such a way that individual idiosyncrasies, colonial group interests, ideologies and economic forces are interrelated.”
Emilia Viotti da Costa - The Americas