David ArmitageDavid Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University where he teaches intellectual history and international history. His many publications include The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge University Pres, 2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007) and, as editor, The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (2nd edition, 2009), British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500–1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c.1760–1840 (2010). Read More Read Less