David Armitage (historian)

David Armitage (born 1965 ) is a British historian.

Armitage studied history at the University of Cambridge. His focus he placed on the areas of imperial history, international history, and intellectual history. Armitage came in 2000 as part of a fellowship at Harvard University, where he has since - interrupted by a two-part teaching at Columbia University in 2004/2005 - teaching and research. Research with which Armitage are involved in a special way the history of the British Empire and the genesis of colonialism. Currently Armitage is working on a broad study of the foundations of modern thought and editing new John Locke's writings on the colonial question. He is married to his first wife, Joyce Chaplin, who also teaches at Harvard University.

Writings

Works as an author:

• The Idelogical Origins of the British Empire, 2000.
• Greater Britain. From 1516 to 1776. Essays in Atlantic History, 2004.
• The Declaration of Independence. A Global History, 2007.

Works as an editor:

• Theories of Empire, 1450-1800, 1998.
• Miton and Republicanism, 1995. ( Co - Editor)
• Grotius 's The Free Sea, 2004.
• British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 2006.
• The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, 2002. ( Co - Editor)

• Modern era historian
• Briton
• Born in 1965
• Man