Kenneth Robert Maxwell (born March 3, 1941) is a British historian who specializes in Iberia and Latin America. A longtime member of the

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, for six years he headed its Latin America Studies Program. His May 13, 2004 resignation from the council involved a major controversy over whether there had been a breach of the so-called "church-state separation" between the council itself and its magazine ''

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''. , Maxwell is a Visiting Doctor of History at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the university's

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, where he directs the Center's Brazil Studies Program.

Selected bibliography

* ''Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808'' (1973) * ''The Press and the Rebirth of Iberian Democracy'' (1983) * ''The New Spain: From Isolation to Influence'' (1994) * ''The Making of Portuguese Democracy'' (1995) * ''Pombal, Paradox of the Enlightenment'' (1995) * ''Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues'' (2003)

References

External links

Kenneth Maxwell's website at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maxwell, Kenneth 1941 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of the United States Operation Condor Harvard University staff Historians of Latin America Latin Americanists Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil) Brazilianists American male non-fiction writers