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BRITISH POLITICAL THOUGHT IN HISTORY,

LITERATURE AND THEORY, 15001800

The history of British political thought has been one of the most

fertile fields of Anglo-American historical writing in the last half-

century. David Armitage brings together an interdisciplinary and

international team of authors to consider the impact of this

scholarship on the study of early modern British history, English

literature and political theory. Leading historians survey the impact

of the history of political thought on the ‘new’ histories of Britain

and Ireland; eminent literary scholars offer novel critical methods

attentive to literary form, genre and language; and distinguished

political theorists treat the conceptual and material relationships

between history and theory. The outstanding examples of critical

practice collected here will encourage the emergence of new research

on the historical, critical and theoretical study of the English-

speaking world in the period c. 15001800. This volume celebrates

the contribution of the Folger Institute to British studies over many

years.

david armitage is Professor of History at Harvard University.

He is the author of The Ideological Origins of the British Empire

(2000), Greater Britain, 15161776: Essays in Atlantic History (2004),

and The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2006), and

editor of Bolingbroke: Political Writings for Cambridge Texts in the

History of Political Thought (1997), Theories of Empire, 14501800

(1998), and Hugo Grotius: The Free Sea (2004). He is also co-editor

of Milton and Republicanism (with Armand Himy and Quentin

Skinner, 1995) and The British Atlantic World, 15001800 (with

Michael J. Braddick, 2002).

BRITISH POLITICAL

THOUGHT IN HISTORY,

LITERATURE AND THEORY,

15001800

edited by

DAVID ARMITAGE

Department of History, Harvard University

Published in association with the

Folger Institute, Washington, DC

David Armitage - British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800 (2006).pdf