Kenneth Robert Maxwell (born March 3, 1941) is a
British
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* British English, ...
historian who specializes in
Iberia
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
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and
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
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. A longtime member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, 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 ''
Foreign Affairs''.
, Maxwell is a Visiting Doctor of History at
Harvard University
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and a senior fellow at the university's
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 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
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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