stuart b. schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of history at Yale University and is currently coeditor of the HAHR. He is the author of Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609–1751 (1973), Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550–1835 (1985), and Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (1988). He is also coeditor, with Frank Salomon, of South America, vol. 3 of The Cambridge History of Native American Peoples (1999). He is presently working on a history of religious and cultural tolerance and dissidence in Iberia and colonial Latin America.
javier villa-flores received his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, and is assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Carlo Ginzburg: El historiador como teórico (1995). He is currently completing a book on the...
