A. J. R. Russell-Wood A. J. R. Russell-Wood Anthony John R. Russell-Wood (1940 – August 13, 2010) was a leading historian of colonial Brazil, the Portuguese Empire, and the broader Luso-Brazilian world. Russell-Wood was born in Wales. He was educated at Rossall School and Oxford University and became a member of the faculty of the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1971; at the time of his death, he was the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History. His first book, "Fidalgos and Philanthropists: The Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Bahia, 1550-1755" (1968), was an ambitious study covering two
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