Bolivarian Times

My friend, colleague, collaborator and fellow historian Matthew Brown, Reader in Latin American History at the University of Bristol, has begun a fascinating initiative to bring together and discuss the exciting new work related to the period (c. 1810-30) culminating in Latin American independence in a blog. It is called Bolivarian Times. I highly recommend it!

Paperback Edition of Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform

I am pleased to announce that the paperback edition of my monograph was published over the summer.

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.

Providence- John Carter Brown Library

I am spending the Fall 2011 semester at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, RI on a N.E.H. Fellowship.

European History Quarterly 41: 3 (2011)

I am pleased to announce that a special issue of European History Quarterly, which I co-edited with Matthew Brown of the University of Bristol, has been published. The theme of the issue is "Europe and Latin America in the 1820s" and it contains a sampling of the essays emerging from the "Re-thinking the 1820s" Symposium held at Trinity College, Cambridge in May 2009.

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".