David Armitage “Civil War: A History in Ideas"
On May 26th a regular research seminar "Boundaries of History" will take place. Professor David Armitage (Harvard University) will make a presentation “Civil War: A History in Ideas”.
Professor David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches international history and intellectual history. He is an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Government Department and at Harvard Law School and is also an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney. Among his fifteen books are The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Harvard University Press, 2007), (co-ed.) The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (Palgrave, 2010), Foundations of Modern International Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2013), (co-auth.) The History Manifesto (Cambridge University press, 2014), (co-ed.) Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (Palgrave, 2014), and Civil War: A History in Ideas (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017).
Below please find the abstract of the presentation "Civil War: A History in Ideas":
From ancient Rome to the present, civil war has compelled new thinking about who we are, how we should be governed and how to secure peace, among many other central political, moral and legal questions. By following ideas about civil war-and the ideas informed by the experience of civil war-this lecture reveals how thinkers have reimagined their political communities in times of ultimate stress, from Roman ideas of war among citizens to contemporary conceptions of transnational terrorism as “global civil war”. Civil war appears as politics by other means-and politics as the means to avoid civil war-across two millennia of western history. It also emerges as the seedbed from which modern ideas of revolution sprang in the eighteenth century and the laws of war developed in the nineteenth century and as a major origin of current ideas about international peace and global conflict. Our confusions and contentions about civil war arise from the many layers of meaning deposited over the centuries of civil war.
Date and time: May, 26 at 18.30.
Venue: 17 Promyshlennaya St. (4th floor, assembly hall)
Language of the presentation: English.
Moderator: Professor Alexander Semyonov (Chair of the department of history, HSE - Saint-Petersburg)
Professor David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches international history and intellectual history. He is an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Government Department and at Harvard Law School and is also an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney. Among his fifteen books are The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Harvard University Press, 2007), (co-ed.) The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (Palgrave, 2010), Foundations of Modern International Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2013), (co-auth.) The History Manifesto (Cambridge University press, 2014), (co-ed.) Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (Palgrave, 2014), and Civil War: A History in Ideas (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017).
Below please find the abstract of the presentation "Civil War: A History in Ideas":
From ancient Rome to the present, civil war has compelled new thinking about who we are, how we should be governed and how to secure peace, among many other central political, moral and legal questions. By following ideas about civil war-and the ideas informed by the experience of civil war-this lecture reveals how thinkers have reimagined their political communities in times of ultimate stress, from Roman ideas of war among citizens to contemporary conceptions of transnational terrorism as “global civil war”. Civil war appears as politics by other means-and politics as the means to avoid civil war-across two millennia of western history. It also emerges as the seedbed from which modern ideas of revolution sprang in the eighteenth century and the laws of war developed in the nineteenth century and as a major origin of current ideas about international peace and global conflict. Our confusions and contentions about civil war arise from the many layers of meaning deposited over the centuries of civil war.
Date and time: May, 26 at 18.30.
Venue: 17 Promyshlennaya St. (4th floor, assembly hall)
Language of the presentation: English.
Moderator: Professor Alexander Semyonov (Chair of the department of history, HSE - Saint-Petersburg)