Kirsten Schultz Professor, Department of History, Seton Hall University (New Jersey), is a historian of Brazil and the Portuguese empire. She is the author of Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 (2001; Portuguese translation published by Civilização Brasileira, 2008) and From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth and Difference in Eighteenth Century Brazil (forthcoming Yale UP), as well as articles on political culture, economic thought, and slavery in the Portuguese empire. Her research has received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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