David Armitage

Armitage is Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard. He is the author of The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), Greater Britain, 1516–1776: Essays in Atlantic History (2004), and The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007). He is also the editor or co-editor of eight books, including: The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (revised edition, 2009), Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (2009), and The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760– 1840 (2009). Armitage is currently working on a study of the foundations of modern international thought, a history of ideas of civil war from Rome to Iraq, and an edition of John Locke’s colonial writings.