David Armitage is Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. A prizewinning teacher and writer, he is 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 has also edited or coedited eight books, including The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (2nd ed., 2009) and The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, 1760-1840 (2010). Among his current projects are an edition of John Locke’s colonial writings and a history of ideas of civil war from Rome to Iraq.

Lecture topics:

• John Locke and America
• Globalizing the Declaration of Independence
• The American Revolution in Global Perspective
• The Idea of Civil War from Rome to Iraq

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