David Armitage

David Armitage is an Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University. He was educated at Cambridge and Princeton Universities, and took his Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1992.

He is the editor of Theories of Empire, 1450-1800 (forthcoming, 1998), Bolingbroke: Political Writings" (Cambridge, 1997) and the co-editor of "Milton and Republicanism (Cambridge, 1995).

His essays and articles on the intellectual and cultural history of the British Atlantic Empire have appeared in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (1990), The Historical Journal (1992), Past & Present(1997), American in European Consciousness, 1493-1750, ed. Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Chapel Hill, 1995), A Union for Empire, ed. John Robertson (Cambridge, 1995), Milton and Republicanism, eds. David Armitage, Armand Himy and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge, 1995), and the Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. I, ed. Nicholas Canny (Oxford, 1998).

He is currently a Fellow of the National Humanities Center, where he is working on a study of the ideological origins of the British Empire.