Stuart B. Schwartz
George Burton Adams Professor of History
(Leave of absence, Academic Year 2008-09)
Office: HGS 234
Phone: (203) 432-1375
Email: stuart.schwartz@yale.edu
Professor Schwartz, who received his PhD 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). He is presently working on three projects: a history of popular toleration in the Hispanic world; a history of independence of Portugal and the crisis of the Iberian Atlantic, 1620-1670; and a social history of Caribbean hurricanes.
