Naked tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues (New World in the Atlantic World) - Tapa blanda

"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

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