Political History

Francesco Anselmetti is a PhD candidate in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut. His dissertation draws on archival work...

• Region(s): France, Scotland, England
• Time Period(s): 18th century; 19th century
• Theme(s): History

18th century and 19th century history, especially the history of economic thought and economic history. I am Director of the Joint Center for...

• Region: France, Britain, Europe
• Time: 17th Century
• Topics: religious and political controversies; Thomas Hobbes;  English-French intellectual exchange

• Region(s): Japan
• Time Period(s): 17th century; 18th century
• Theme(s): social history

Professor David L. Howell grew up in Hilo, Hawai'i. After graduating from the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, he studied at Hokkaido University in Sapporo and...

• Region(s): Latin America; Europe
• Time Period(s): 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century
• Theme(s): legal history; social history; political history; imperial history; global history

Tamar Herzog's work centers on the relationship...

David Armitage, MA, PhD, LittD, CorrFRSE, FRHistS, FAHA, is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and former Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. He is also an...

John Brewer's current research interests are focused on two areas: issues of value in the visual-art world and questions of travel, tourism, identity, and place.   

He has had a long-standing interest in the fraught relationship between culture and money...

• Region(s): Italy; Europe
• Time Period(s): 16th century
• Theme(s): Christian movements of reform and complicated legacies of Protestantism, and the complex interrelationships between theology, politics, and rapid social change that marked sixteenth...

• Region(s): Europe
• Time Period(s): 15th century; 16th century; 17th century
• Theme(s): Political economy of Empire; Italy

   

Sophus Reinert is a Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy...