Oxford Latin American Centre event (June 2020)

Tertúlia

at the Latin American History Seminar

Abolitionism and Politics

in Imperial Brazil

Jeffrey Needell, University of Florida, Gainesville,

Gabe Paquette, University of Oregon

 

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Jeffrey D. Needell is Professor of History and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (1987) and The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871 (2006), and is the editor of Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power (2015).  His most recent book and focus of this Tertúlia, The Sacred Cause.  The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro, was published by Stanford University Press earlier this year.

Gabe Paquette is Professor of History at the University of Oregon. Paquette previously held research and teaching posts at the University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and, for almost a decade, The Johns Hopkins University, where he was also Director of the Program in Latin American Studies. Paquette's research focuses on aspects of European, Latin American, and International History. His most recent book, The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions, was published in 2019.

Imperial Portugal in print!

Imperial Portugal has been published in the UK; it will be out in the USA in April!

Interview on Brazil

I was interviewed by The Global Dispatches on February 20, 2012 on contemporary Brazilian politics. It is possible to read the interview here.

New TLS Reviews

My review of Larry Rohter's new book Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed appeared in the Times Literary Supplement on June 17.


My review of Erik Seeman's new book Death in the New World appeared in the TLS on July 29.

History Today

I'm very excited that my article on early 19th-century Luso-Brazilian history has been published in the June 2011 issue of History Today. I enjoyed writing the piece and I had the good fortune of giving an early version of it in February as a public lecture at Wesleyan University, my alma mater. The article in History Today is entitled "Empire of Exceptions: The Making of Modern Brazil".

Brazil

I've just come back from almost 2 months in Brazil. I was researching in archives in the North and Northeast of the country. I also managed to take a wonderful trip from Recife to Salvador via many remarkable places in the states of Alagoas and Sergipe.

I've also been doing some thinking about contemporary Brazil, a refreshing break from dusty archives, much of it inspired by what I saw during my travels and also by an edited collection Brazil under Lula (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) that I read over the summer. I recently wrote a review essay that includes some of these reflections for The Review, published as a section of the Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National.