• The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda (2011)
    Part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Studies Series, The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda is a collection of sixteen essays from the conference “The Brazilian State: Paths and Prospects of Dirigisme and Liberalization,” held at the Graduate Center in November 2009. Collectively, the papers discuss state reform, institutional development, policy effectiveness, and economic dynamics in Brazil since the 1930s. Part I dwells on actors, contexts, institutions, and ideas; Part II deepens the examination of social and cultural policy; Part III shifts the focus to Brazil’s financial sector, the global financial crisis of 2008, and capital market dynamics; and Part IV looks at the country’s changing global relations. Mauricio Font (Queens College and The Graduate Center) is on the doctoral faculty in sociology and is director of the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies.
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  • Coffee and Transformation in São Paulo, Brazil (2010)
    Written by Mauricio Font. The state of São Paulo has been the leader of Brazilian modernization, development, and industrialization since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Coffee and Transformation in São Paulo, Brazil advances a distinctive interpretation of this phenomenon. Large and entrepreneurial coffee landlords opened the frontier west of the state capital, and made up the world’s largest coffee producer. But foreign settlers made a major contribution to the last phase of frontier expansion in western São Paulo. They were an integral part of the dense networks of towns emerging in this region. This volume pays close attention to the political and economic implications of São Paulo’s great transformation and segmentation, including their links to internal conflict, the Brazilian Revolution of 1930, and regionalism.
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  • Café e Política: Ação da Elite Cafeeiran a Política Paulista
    1920-1930     (1988, Rev. 2010)
    Written by Mauricio A. Font and Elba Barzelatto. This volume presents the methods and data of a research project on the collective action of São Paulo’s coffee elite. Directed by Mauricio Font and with the collaboration of Elba Barzelatto, this work is a systematic database that covers an important period, the 1920s, a time of change and rapid economic transformation in the state of São Paulo and the end of the Old Republic. Some of the findings and conclusions to this work are found in Prof. Font’s 2010 publication, Coffee and Transformation in São Paulo, Brazil. This volume is written in Portugese.

  • Nas trilhas de revolução (2008)
    Article written by Mauricio Font for the Special Edition '50 Years of the Cuban Revolution' in the prominent Brazilian newspaper, O Estado de S. Paulo. The article addresses the path of the Cuban Revolution and analyzes its current consequences and perception.
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  • Changing Cuba in a Changing World(2008)
    Edited by Mauricio A. Font with the assistance of John Arias. Volume contains papers presented at the international conference A Changing Cuba in a Changing World held at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (March 13-15, 2008). The essays relate research and analysis that focus on the current changing state of Cuba and represent diverse perspectives and discilpines. Five thematic sections are emphasized here: Ideas, Ideology and Politics; Cuba and the World; Economics; History, Culture and Race; and Literature, Cinema and Arts. Online publication.
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  • CUBA: In Transition? Pathways to Renewal, Long-Term Development and Global Reintegration (2006)
    Edited by Mauricio A. Font with the assistance of Scott Larson. Online papers and proceedings from the homonymous symposium, held March 13-15, 2006 at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. The collected essays address prospects for economic evolution, Cuba in comparative perspective, Cuba's changing institutions and the making of material culture related to the island. Online publication.
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  • The Cuban Republic and José Martí: Reception and Use of a National Symbol (2005)
    Edited by Mauricio A. Font and Alfonso W. Quiroz. Series of essays addressing the influence of José Martí – poet, scholar and revolutionary – on the formation of diverging national identities in post-independence Cuba. The volume provides a critical analysis of Martí's political and literary legacies and the ways they have been used to advance contrasting versions of contemporary Cuban reality.
    This volume is part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Book Series.
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  • Cuba Today: Continuity and Change since the 'Periodo Especial' (2004)
    Edited by Mauricio A. Font with the assistance of Scott Larson and Daniel Xuereb. Online collection of papers and proceedings from the homonymous symposium, held October 4-5, 2004 at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. It features essays on a broad range of issues facing contemporary Cuba, including changing perceptions, emergent perspectives, economic transformations, immigration and ethnic identity, and evolving institutions.
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  • Alexander von Humboldt: From the Americas to the Cosmos (2004)
    Compiled by Raymond Erickson, Mauricio A. Font, and Brian Schwartz. Online papers and proceedings from the Humboldt Bicentennial: An Interdisciplinary Conference held October 14-16, 2004 at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. The collected essays celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of Alexander von Humboldt's epochal journey of exploration of South America, Cuba and Mexico and his visit to the United States.
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  • Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz(2004)
    Edited by Mauricio A. Font and Alfonso W. Quiroz. Essays discussing Ortiz's profoundly influential approach to transculturation, Afro-Latin culture, race relations, and such major themes in Cuban society and history as the roles of tobacco and sugar, civil society, religion and law, national identity, intellectual and political dynamics during the Republic, music, and literature. This volume is part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Book Series.
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  • Reforming Brazil (2004)
    Edited by Mauricio A. Font and Anthony Peter Spanakos. A thought-provoking examination of important issues facing Brazil today, from privatization and agrarian reform to entrepreneurial programs and hemispheric integration. Written by 11 Brazilianist scholars from a range of disciplines and intellectual traditions, the book offers compelling new insights for international policymakers, economists and scholars of Brazil. This volume is part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Book Series.
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  • Transforming Brazil: An Era of Reform in Perspective (2003)
    Written by Mauricio A. Font. Explores the complex web of policies, ideas, institutions, social forces, and political actors behind recent Brazilian reforms. By placing them in a broader analytical framework, it sets the backdrop for a better understanding of the character, timing, and sequence of the reform process. The focus is on the complex reform efforts during the post-1985 democratization era.
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  • Integración Económica y Democratización: América Latina y Cuba (1998)
    Edited by Pilar Álamos, Mauricio A. Font, José Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque, Francisco León. Essays exploring Cuba's relations with other Latin American countries and institutions, its regional economic integration, the environment for change within Cuba, the prospects for democratization and the environment for international insertion at the dawn of the 21st century. This volume is part of the Bildner Western Hemisphere Book Series.
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