His scholarly publications include
Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil (1973),
Early Latin America (1983),
Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society (1985),
Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels (1992), as editor,
A Governor and His Image in Baroque Brazil (1979),
Implicit Understandings (1994),
Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (2000),
Cambridge History of Peoples of the Americas. South America (1999). In 2008 Schwartz published
All Can Be Saved: Religious Toleration and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (Yale University Press). The book traces the idea of tolerance in the Hispanic world from 1500-1820, focusing on the attitudes of common people rather than elites. The book received numerous awards including the 2008
Cundill International Prize in History, the 2009
American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in the category of Historical Study of Religion, the 2009 John E. Fagg Prize awarded by the
American Historical Association, the 2009 George L. Mosse Prize awarded by the American Historical Association, the 2009
Leo Gershoy Award awarded by the American Historical Association, and the Bolton-Johnson Prize awarded by the
Conference on Latin American History. and the
Institute of Advanced Studies in
Princeton, New Jersey. In 1983 he served as chair of the
Conference on Latin American History, the professional organization of Latin American historians. Schwartz lives in
Guilford, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico with his wife, scholar Maria Jordán, a senior lecturer in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and a lecturer in history at Yale, and author of
Soñar La Historia: Vida y Textos de Lucrecia de León en la España del Siglo de Oro (Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2007). ==References==