David Armitage

David Armitage (born January 31, 1965 in Stockport ) is a British historian.

Life

Armitage studied history at Cambridge University and Princeton University . From 1993 to 2004 he taught at Columbia University in New York. He has been teaching and researching at the Department of History at Harvard University since 2004, where he has been Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History since 2007. At the same university he is also an Affiliated Professor in the Department of Government and an Affiliated Faculty Member of Harvard Law School . He is also an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College at Cambridge University and an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney . Guest professorships and lectureships have taken him to, among others, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Oxford University , Freie Universität Berlin and Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. His main areas of study are global history and the history of ideas .

In 2019 Armitage was elected to the Academia Europaea .

He is married to Joyce Chaplin , who also teaches at Harvard University.

As an author :

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000.
Greater Britain. 1516-1776. Essays in Atlantic History , Ashgate, Burlington (Vermont) 2004.
The Declaration of Independence. A Global History , Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2007.
Foundations of Modern International Thought , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013.
(with Jo Guldi): The History Manifesto , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014; revised edition 2015.
Civil Wars. A History in Ideas , Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2017.
- Civil war. On the nature of domestic conflicts. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018. ISBN 978-3-608-96216-1

As editor :

Bolingbroke : Political Writings , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997.
Theories of Empire, 1450-1800 , Ashgate, Burlington (Vermont) 1998.
(with Armand Himy and Quentin Skinner ): Milton and Republicanism , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995.
Hugo Grotius : The Free Sea , Liberty Fund, Indianapolis 2004, corrected edition 2010.
(with Michael J. Braddick): The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 , Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2002, expanded edition 2009.
British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006.
(with Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice): Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009.
(with Sanjay Subrahmanyam): The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 , Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2010.
(with Alison Bashford): Pacific Histories. Ocean, Land, People , Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2014.