David Armitage (1) (1965–)
Autore di Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
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Sull'Autore
David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. Alison Bahsford is the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.
Opere di David Armitage
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The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume 1 : The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of… (1998) — Collaboratore — 259 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1965
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- England, UK
USA - Istruzione
- Cambridge University ( [1992])
Stockport Grammar School
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University - Attività lavorative
- historian
professor - Relazioni
- Chaplin, Joyce E. (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- Royal Historical Society
American Historical Association
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Hakluyt Society
John Carter Brown Library
North American Conference on British Studies (mostra tutto 8)
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Harvard University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
Utenti
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Reading list (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 729
- Popolarità
- #34,830
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 118
- Lingue
- 6
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 Guldi and David Armitage identify a recent shift back
to longer-term narratives, following many decades of increasing
specialisation, which they argue is vital for the future of historical
scholarship and how it is communicated. This provocative
and thoughtful book makes an important intervention in the
debate about the role of history and the humanities in a digital
age. It will provoke discussion among policy-makers, activists,
and entrepreneurs as well as ordinary listeners, viewers, readers,
students, and teachers.… (altro)