Stuart Schwartz

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George Burton Adams Professor of History; Chair, Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies
On Leave: 
Spring 2024
Office: 
HQ 217
Phone: 
203-432-1375
Fields of interest: 

Latin American history; Brazil

Bio: 

Professor Schwartz, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1968, specializes in the History of colonial Latin America, especially Brazil and on the history of Early Modern expansion. Among his books are Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil (1973), Early Latin America (1983), Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society (1985), Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels (1992), as editor, A Governor and His Image in Baroque Brazil (1979), Implicit Understandings (1994), Victors And Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (2000), Cambridge History Of Native Peoples Of The Americas. South America (1999), and All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (2008). He is presently working on several projects: a history of independence of Portugal and the crisis of the Iberian Atlantic, 1620-1670; and a social history of Caribbean hurricanes.

   

   

  

Period: 
Early Modern
Geography: 
Atlantic
Caribbean
Latin America
Western Europe
Thematic: 
Comparative
Economic
Empires & Colonialism
Environmental