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Kenneth Maxwell , the founder of the Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, is currently a weekly columnist for the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo. (August 2015)
The Dirty War
A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
by Marguerite Feitlowitz
May 14, 1998 issue
Pirate Democracy
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by David Cordingly
March 6, 1997 issue
The Road to Kisses
The True History of Chocolate
by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
September 19, 1996 issue
¡Adiós Columbus!
The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World
by Carlos Fuentes
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
by Anthony Grafton, with April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi
The Times Atlas of World Exploration: 3,000 Years of Exploring, Explorers, and Mapmaking
edited by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900
by Alfred Crosby
The Early Spanish Main
by Carl Ortwin Sauer, foreword by Anthony Pagden
The Native Population of the Americas in 1492
edited by William M. Denevan, foreword by W. George Lovell
The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
by Irving Rouse
Disease and Demography in the Americas
edited by John W. Verano, edited by Douglas H. Ubelaker
Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America
edited by Luciano Formisano, foreword by Garry Wills, translated by David Jacobson
Portugal and the Discovery of America: Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese
by Alfredo Pinheiro Marques
L'expansion Portugaise dans la littérature latine de la renaissance
by Luis de Matos
The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus
by Valerie I.J. Flint
Isabel The Queen: Life and Times
by Peggy K. Liss
The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
January 28, 1993 issue
The Mystery of Chico Mendes
Into the Amazon: The Struggle for the Rain Forest
by Augusta Dwyer
The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
by Andrew Revkin
Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in His Own Words
additional material by Tony Gross
The World Is Burning
by Alex Shoumatoff
The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon
by Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn
The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rainforest
by Adrian Cowell
O Empate contra Chico Mendes
by Márcio Souza
Rural Violence in Brazil: February 1991 An Americas Watch Report
March 28, 1991 issue
The Tragedy of the Amazon
The Last Rain Forests: A World Conservation Atlas
edited by Mark Collins, foreword by David Attenborough
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide
by Louise H. Emmons, illustrated by François Feer
The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon
by Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn
World Resources, 1990–1991: A Guide to the Global Environment
a Report by the World Resources Institute
Government Policies and Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Region
by Dennis J. Mahar
Developing Amazonia: Deforestation and Social Conflict in Brazil's Carajás Programme
by Anthony L. Hall
The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rain Forest
by Adrian Cowell
Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush
by David Cleary
Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest
edited by Anthony B. Anderson
March 7, 1991 issue
Portugal: A Neat Revolution
Portugal e o Futuro: Análise da Conjuntura Nacional [Portugal and the Future]
by António de Spínola
June 13, 1974 issue
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