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Faculty

Jonathan Scott

Carroll Amundson Professor of British History
PhD, University of Cambridge (1986)

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3508 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7481
jos15@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Field(s) Early Modern British and European History
History of Political Thought

Teaching

Stuart England

Political Thought from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Anglo-Dutch Achievement 1500–1800

Texts and Contexts

Geography and Empire: Islands and Nationhood in Early Modern British Writing

Selected Publications

Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Harry's Absence: Looking for My Father on the Mountain (University of Wellington Press, 1997; Permanent Press, Sag Harbor, NY, 2000)

Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis 1677–1683 (Cambridge University Press, 1991; paperback 2001)

Honors/Awards


British Academy Research Readership (2001–02)

Visiting Fellow, University of Sydney (2003)

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2006 (Commonwealth Principles)

Project(s)

Geography and Empire: Britain's Island Idea, 1500-1800 (book in progress).

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