Books by David (Professor of History Armitage

In this insightful and wide-ranging work, David Armitage advances the burgeoning field of international intellectual history. He combines important methodological essays with original scholarship that examines afresh the contribution of leading figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Burke and Bentham to the history of international thought.

David Armitage makes an outstanding contribution with this history of British conceptions of empire from the 1540s to the 1740s. He sheds light on major British political thinkers, and the relationship between Protestantism and empire, theories of property, liberty and political economy, and the emergence of the British identity. Winner of the History Today Book of the Year prize for 2000.