David Armitage
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 170130 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Armitage |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Armitage |
| FIRMA | ARMITAGE D |
| AFILIACIONES | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0538-7078 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 400 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 14 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Cambridge History of International Law
Volume II of The Cambridge History of International Law breaks the mould of Eurocentric histories in the field by exploring international law in Asia from antiquity to decolonisation. Its twenty-six chapters span a vast geography, covering both the landmass and the oceans; offering accounts of statecraft and diplomacy, war and trade; marriage and gift-giving; treaty-making and dispute settlement; ideas of the human and 'the other'; and entangleme…
A Lecturer’s Reply to Just Criticism
John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture
The following communication sets a previously unrecorded manuscript by John Locke in context. The manuscript comprises his remarks on a bill to create a ‘Flax and Hemp Company of Ireland’, laid before the Irish House of Commons in November 1695, which circulated in London in late 1697. Locke likely made his remarks for the lord chancellor, Sir John Somers, among whose papers they survive. The manuscript sheds new light on Locke’s practical involv…
Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment
As we face new global challenges – from climate change to the international political order – the need to re-examine the historical roots of cosmopolitanism and liberal principles on a global scale has become increasingly central to the political conversation. Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment brings together leading scholars in cultural history, the history of ideas and global politics in order to reassess the complexity of cosmopolitanism d…
Home and the world
The Finnish lawyer-historian Martti Koskenniemi's new book, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300-1870 (2021), is the culmination of a 30-year-long project to deconstruct and historicise the reigning assumptions of the profession of international law. This article evaluates To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth in the context of Koskenniemi's larger critical project as well as within the historiography…
And All That
Founding documents are parsed, revered and preserved but they can also be misread, mythologised and overlooked. This article examines the entangled fates of the Scots Declaration of Arbroath (1320) and the US Declaration of Independence (1776) at a moment between the seven-hundredth anniversary of the one in 2020 and the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the other in 2026. It shows that the two ‘declarations’ were both diplomatic texts, rhe…
George III and the Law of Nations
This article examines how George III, from his early years as prince of Wales in the 1750s through to the twilight of his active rulership in the early nineteenth century, was engaged with what contemporaries called the law of nations, in theory and in practice. It particularly highlights his princely education, how as king he gathered and processed information about imperial and international affairs, and how his constitutional and juridical kno…
Early Modern Histories of Time
Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England. Kristen Poole and Owen Williams, eds. Folger Shakespeare Library. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. viii + 362 pp. $79.95. - Volume 74 Issue 4
A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age
A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age, explores peace in the period from 1920 to the present. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meani…
A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity
A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity, explores peace in the period from 500 BC to 800 AD. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of pe…
Every Great Revolution Is a Civil War
Originality and novelty define the modern script of revolution.That script was original in the sense that it had identifiable beginnings that have been precisely located in France in 1789 when "revolution was revolutionised".And it was novel because in that year "the French imagined a radical break with the past achieved by the conscious will of human actors, an inaugural moment for a drama of change and transformation projected indefinitely into…
Civil Wars
A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor or vanquished, sufferer or outsider; it…
Fighting words? A reply to my critics
Civil war seems to be at once everywhere and nowhere. By the late twentieth century, as interstate warfare had almost vanished, civil war had become humanity’s most destructive and most characteris
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
World History as Oceanic History
Until recently, most historians shared a prejudice in favour of the history of land, territory and their human inhabitants. Yet two-thirds of the world’s surface is water and much of human history has been conducted on its shores, around its seas and across its oceans. This article proposes reimagining the history of the world through its oceans and seas and examines the multiple genealogies of oceanic history, Mediterranean, Pacific and Atlantic…
Oceanic Histories
Oceanic HistoriesA Roundtable Renaud Morieux, Clare Anderson, Jonathan Lamb, David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram Oceanic Histories Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Oceanic Histories opens a new series for Cambridge University Press. By bringing world history, maritime history and environmental history into one conversation, it presents the very lates…
Oceanic Histories
Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the histories and the historiographies of the various o…
The Age of the Democratic Revolution
For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is the author's account of this incendiary age. The book argues that the American, French, and Polish revolutions—and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, and elsewhere—were manifestations of similar political ideas, needs, and co…
The Law of Nations in Global History
In recent years there has been a growing awareness of the need to write a global history of law of nations that disengages from parochial national and regional histories. It is hoped that these developments will bring centre-stage the work of Charles Henry Alexandrowicz (1902–75), a scholar who was among the first to conceptualize the history of international law as that of intersecting histories of different regions of the world. Alexandrowicz w…
Oceanic Histories
Three Narratives of Civil War
The Age of Revolution in Global Context c. 1760-1840
Stasis
Theories of Empire, 1450–1800
Theories of Empire, 1450-1800 draws upon published and unpublished work by leading scholars in the history of European expansion and the history of political thought. It covers the whole span of imperial theories from ancient Rome to the American founding, and includes a series of essays which address the theoretical underpinnings of the Spanish, Portuguese, French, British and Dutch empires in both the Americas and in Asia. The volume is unprece…
História Intelectual e a Longa Duração
Após décadas de aversão e esquecimento, historiadores de todos os quadrantes começam a regressar aos estudos de grande escala temporal. Há até sinais de que os historiadores intelectuais estão a retomar a abordagem de longa duração. Quais serão as razões para este ressurgimento da história intelectual de grande alcance e de que modo pode ela tornar-se metodologicamente robusta e, ao mesmo tempo, historicamente convincente? Este artigo propõe um m…
The History Manifesto
How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history - especially long-term history - so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society. Leading historians Jo Gu…
John Locke, Carolina, and the Two Treatises of Government
Recent scholarship on John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government has drawn particular attention to the colonial antecedents and applications of the theory of appropriation in chapter V of theSecond Treatise. This attention has coincided with a more general interest among political theorists in the historical and theoretical relationship between liberalism and colonialism. This essay reviews the surviving evidence for Locke’s knowledge of the Caroli…
The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c.1760–1840
Introduction: Causation, Connection and Comparison D.Armitage& S.Subrahmanyam Sparks from Altar of '76: International Repercussions and Reconsiderations of the American Revolution G.B.Nash The French Revolution in Global Context L.Hunt Revolutionary Exiles: The American Loyalist and French Aemigre Diasporas M.Jasanoff Iberian Passages: Continuity and Change in the South Atlantic J.Adelman The Caribbean in the Age of Revolution D.C.Geggus The Dyna…
What's the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Durée
Historians of all kinds are beginning to return to temporally expansive studies after decades of aversion and neglect. There are even signs that intellectual historians are returning to the longue durée. What are the reasons for this revival of long-range intellectual history? And how might it be rendered methodologically robust as well as historically compelling? This article proposes a model of transtemporal history, proceeding via serial conte…
The Declaration of Independence
Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world
The Cromwellian Protectorate and the languages of empire
This article recovers some of the classical, constitutional, and religious languages of empire in early-modern Britain by a consideration of the period between the end of the first Anglo-Dutch war in 1654 and the calling of the second Protecloral Parliament in 1656. It examines in particular the strategic and political motivationsfor CromweWs ‘western design’ against the Spanish possessions in the Caribbean and presents the response to thefailure…
Le retour de la longue durée
Depuis les années 1970, la plupart des historiens anglophones ont travaillé sur des périodes temporelles s'étendant de cinq à cinquante ans. L'étroitesse de ce champ de vision, ce repli face aux périodes plus longues généralement étudiées jusqu'alors, ont contribué à détacher d'eux un lectorat plus large ainsi qu'à les priver de l'influence qu'ils avaient pu avoir sur le débat public. Cet article étudie les causes et les conséquences de ce repli …
The History Manifesto
IT IS IN THE NATURE OF MANIFESTOS to be hopeful, forward-looking, and somewhat provocative.As the name suggests, manifestos strive to be open, to make evident what might otherwise be obscure.Ever since Marx and Engels irreversibly reconfigured the genre's authoritative, sovereign form in the mid-nineteenth century, manifestos have been both rhetorical and practical, diagnostic as well as reformative: they discern problems and offer sometimes utop…
The Red Atlantic
Until quite recently, Atlantic history seemed to be available in any color, so long as it was white. To be sure, this was the history of the North Atlantic rather than the South Atlantic, of Anglo-America rather than Latin America, and of the connections between North America and Europe rather than of those between both Americas and Africa. The origins of this history of the white Atlantic have been traced back to anti-isolationism in the United …
A Patriot for Whom? The Afterlives of Bolingbroke's Patriot King
The transformation of patriotism into nationalism has become one of the accepted grand narratives of eighteenth-century British history. From its first appearance in English in the 1720s, “patriotism” as a political slogan expressed devotion to the common good of the patria and hostility to sectional interests and became a staple of oppositional politics. Though it was attacked by ministerialist writers, it was a liability only for those like the…
The Fifty Years' Rift
Georg Cavallar, The Rights of Strangers: Theories of International Hospitality, the Global Community, and Political Justice since Vitoria (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002) Jonathan Haslam, No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations since Machiavelli (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002) Edward Keene, Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20…
The elephant and the whale
The Trustees and Director of the National Maritime Museum have done me a double honour by asking me to deliver the Caird Lecture and to mark the opening of the Museum's new Research Centre for Imperial and Maritime Studies. With a double honour comes a double duty. I must both attempt to continue a distinguished tradition of Caird lectures and also seek to inaugurate what will surely become an equally great tradition emanating from this timely ne…
Making the Empire British
MAKING THE EMPIRE BRITISH: SCOTLAND IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD 1542–1707 Get access David Armitage David Armitage Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 155, Issue 1, May 1997, Pages 34–63, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/155.1.34 Published: 01 May 1997
Horizons of History
Big is back across a wide range of historical fields. Many historians are stretching space, to create international, transnational and global histories. Others are expanding time, to pursue Big History, Deep History and the history of the Anthropocene. What explains this broadening of horizons? And what does it mean for the future of history? This article makes a case for history as a discipline of social and political transformation amid crises …
Edmund Burke and Reason of State
Edmund Burke has been one of the few political thinkers to be treated seriously by international theorists.According to Martin Wight, one of the founders of the so-called "English School" of international theory, Burke was "[t]he only political philosopher who has turned wholly from political theory to international theory."2The resurgence of interest in Burke as an international theorist has not, however, generated any consensus about how he mig…
Modern International Thought
International intellectual history—the intellectual history of the international and an internationalised intellectual history—has recently emerged as one of the most fertile areas of research in the history of ideas. This article responds to eight essays inspired by my own contribution to this field in Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013). It engages with their positive achievements regarding the recovery of other foundations for m…
Pour une ' histoire ambitieuse
Cet article répond aux multiples critiques formulées contre la thèse de David Armitage et Jo Guldi selon laquelle la longue durée est de retour après une période de retrait et qu'elle fait bien de revenir, afin de faire revivre la discipline historique comme une science humaine critique. Ils soutiennent que la longue durée a des significations différentes selon les traditions historiques ; que son importance pour le public non universitaire ne se…
Foundations of modern international theory
Probing the Foundations of Tully’s Public Philosophy
James Tully’s Public Philosophy in a New Key is a complex intellectual edifice. Tully deftly deploys the philosophical tools forged by, among others, Wittgenstein, Arendt, Foucault, and Skinner to dismantle the architecture of modern political reason in order to build in its place a more robust structure adequate to the needs of a “de-imperialising age.” The resources he uses are unusually diverse, ranging across the whole canon of Western politi…
The Contagion of Sovereignty
Fighting words? A reply to my critics
Civil war seems to be at once everywhere and nowhere. By the late twentieth century, as interstate warfare had almost vanished, civil war had become humanity’s most destructive and most characteris
Oceanic Histories
Oceanic HistoriesA Roundtable Renaud Morieux, Clare Anderson, Jonathan Lamb, David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram Oceanic Histories Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Oceanic Histories opens a new series for Cambridge University Press. By bringing world history, maritime history and environmental history into one conversation, it presents the very lates…
The Age of Revolution in Global Context c. 1760-1840
Longing for the Longue Durée
The authors of The History Manifesto respond to the Viewpoint commentary and extend the dialogue between the book's arguments and the recent historiography of science, technology, and medicine
The Declaration of Independence in World Context
Where better to begin internationalizing the history of the United States than at the beginning, with the Declaration of Independence? No document is as familiar to students or so deeply entwined with what it means to be an American. The self-evident truths it proclaimed to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have guaranteed it a sacrosanct place as scripture, a testament to the special qualities of a chosen people. Little wonder, then, t…
The Cromwellian Protectorate and the languages of empire
This article recovers some of the classical, constitutional, and religious languages of empire in early-modern Britain by a consideration of the period between the end of the first Anglo-Dutch war in 1654 and the calling of the second Protecloral Parliament in 1656. It examines in particular the strategic and political motivationsfor CromweWs ‘western design’ against the Spanish possessions in the Caribbean and presents the response to thefailure…
Commercio, colonie e impero alla vigilia della rivoluzione Americana
Noam Chomsky, Year 501
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Milton and Republicanism
Drawing upon the expertise of both historians and literary critics, this volume examines the classical sources of Milton's republicanism, the genesis of that republicanism in the 1640s, its disappointment in the 1650s and its presence in his work (particularly in Paradise Lost) after the Restoration.
Bolingbroke
Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, was one of the most creative political thinkers in eighteenth-century Britain. In this volume, modernised and fully annotated texts of his most important political works, the Dissertation upon Parties, the letter, 'On the Spirit of Patriotism', and The Idea of the Patriot King, are brought together for the first time. Bolingbroke was the first major thinker to face the long-term economic and political conseque…
A Patriot for Whom? The Afterlives of Bolingbroke's Patriot King
The transformation of patriotism into nationalism has become one of the accepted grand narratives of eighteenth-century British history. From its first appearance in English in the 1720s, “patriotism” as a political slogan expressed devotion to the common good of the patria and hostility to sectional interests and became a staple of oppositional politics. Though it was attacked by ministerialist writers, it was a liability only for those like the…
Making the Empire British
MAKING THE EMPIRE BRITISH: SCOTLAND IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD 1542–1707 Get access David Armitage David Armitage Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 155, Issue 1, May 1997, Pages 34–63, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/155.1.34 Published: 01 May 1997
Foreigners and Englishmen
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of i…
Edmund Burke and Reason of State
Edmund Burke has been one of the few political thinkers to be treated seriously by international theorists.According to Martin Wight, one of the founders of the so-called "English School" of international theory, Burke was "[t]he only political philosopher who has turned wholly from political theory to international theory."2The resurgence of interest in Burke as an international theorist has not, however, generated any consensus about how he mig…
The Red Atlantic
Until quite recently, Atlantic history seemed to be available in any color, so long as it was white. To be sure, this was the history of the North Atlantic rather than the South Atlantic, of Anglo-America rather than Latin America, and of the connections between North America and Europe rather than of those between both Americas and Africa. The origins of this history of the white Atlantic have been traced back to anti-isolationism in the United …
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
The Declaration of Independence and International Law
The Fifty Years' Rift
Georg Cavallar, The Rights of Strangers: Theories of International Hospitality, the Global Community, and Political Justice since Vitoria (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002) Jonathan Haslam, No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations since Machiavelli (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002) Edward Keene, Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20…
The Declaration of Independence in World Context
Where better to begin internationalizing the history of the United States than at the beginning, with the Declaration of Independence? No document is as familiar to students or so deeply entwined with what it means to be an American. The self-evident truths it proclaimed to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have guaranteed it a sacrosanct place as scripture, a testament to the special qualities of a chosen people. Little wonder, then, t…
The Elizabethan Idea of Empire
This paper argues that the English idea of empire in the reign of Elizabeth I was derivative, belated and incoherent. Its sources were classical and continental rather than indigenous. It arose more than a century after the Scottish monarchy had elaborated its own conception of empire. Moreover, it expressed a sense of backwardness, isolation and anxiety that mirrored the English failure to establish any permanent settlements in the Atlantic worl…
The Free Sea (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics)
John Locke, Carolina, and the Two Treatises of Government
Recent scholarship on John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government has drawn particular attention to the colonial antecedents and applications of the theory of appropriation in chapter V of theSecond Treatise. This attention has coincided with a more general interest among political theorists in the historical and theoretical relationship between liberalism and colonialism. This essay reviews the surviving evidence for Locke’s knowledge of the Caroli…
The Contagion of Sovereignty
The elephant and the whale
The Trustees and Director of the National Maritime Museum have done me a double honour by asking me to deliver the Caird Lecture and to mark the opening of the Museum's new Research Centre for Imperial and Maritime Studies. With a double honour comes a double duty. I must both attempt to continue a distinguished tradition of Caird lectures and also seek to inaugurate what will surely become an equally great tradition emanating from this timely ne…
The Declaration of Independence
Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world
Declarations
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The Declaration of Independence
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"A Global History" Brought down to Size
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The Declaration's Domestic International Effects
IN his insightful study of what he calls declaration of interdepen dence (30), David Armitage suggests that the effective date of U.S. independence might be 1778, when France signed a treaty recogniz ing and agreeing to aid the revolutionaries, or even 1783, when Britain conceded (85) independence in the Treaty of Paris. The date matters. In raising this issue, Armitage reminds us that the American Revolution was a drama with many acts that could…
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