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BRITISH POLITICAL THOUGHT IN HISTORY,
LITERATURE AND THEORY, 1500À1800
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. 1500À1800. 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, 1516À1776: 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, 1450À1800
(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, 1500À1800 (with
Michael J. Braddick, 2002).
BRITISH POLITICAL
THOUGHT IN HISTORY,
LITERATURE AND THEORY,
1500À1800
edited by
DAVID ARMITAGE
Department of History, Harvard University
Published in association with the
Folger Institute, Wa