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Follow Marshall Eakin in his blog- Looking for Brazil
Marshall Eakin is a historian of Latin America specializing in the history of Brazil, and is currently on leave there. Although his work spans all of Brazilian history, his major publications have concentrated on economic and business history, industrialization, and the processes of nationalism and nation-building--primarily in the twentieth century. His first book, British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960 (Duke, 1989), traces the history of the most successful foreign enterprise in 19th- and 20th-century Brazil. Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Palgrave, 2001) examines the industrialization of the second-largest industrial center in Brazil. Much of his work addresses audiences beyond the academy. This work includes Brazil: The Once and Future Country (St. Martin’s, 1997), a one-volume introduction to Brazil for beginners and two video courses with the Teaching Company, The Conquest of the Americas and The Americas in a Revolutionary Era. His latest book is The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).