University of Pittsburgh: Department of History

Jonathan Henry Scott

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3508 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260-7403
United States of America
(412) 648-7481
Fax(412) 648 9074
jos15@pitt.edu
http://www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/fac-scott.html

Education

B.A., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 1979 (History, English, Philosophy, Classics)

B.A. (Hons), 1st class in History VUW, NZ 1980

Ph.D. Trinity College, Cambridge, UK 1986

Awards

Victoria University Senior Scholarship 1980

Commonwealth Scholarship 1982-5

External Research Studentship, Trinity College, Cambridge 1982-5

Research Fellowship, Magdalene College, Cambridge 1985-7

Newton Trust Fellowship, Faculty of History, Cambridge 1993-8, 1998-2001

British Academy one term extra leave award Michaelmas 1998

British Academy Research Readership 2001- 2002

Senior Visiting Fellow, Dept of History, University of Sydney, Australia, May 2003

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2006: Commonwealth Principles

Present Employment

Carroll J. Amundson Professor of British History, University of Pittsburgh

Previous Appointments

Lecturer in European History, Victoria University of Wellington 1987-88

Lecturer in British History, University of Sheffield 1989-91

Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Downing College, Cambridge 1991-2002

Publications

Books

Algernon Sidney and the English Republic 1623-1677, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988; paperback edn., 2004. 258 pp.

Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis 1677-1683, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991; paperback edn, 2002. 388 pp.

Harry's Absence: Looking for my Father on the Mountain, Victoria University of Wellington Press, Wellington, paperback, 1997. 223pp.

Harry's Absence: Looking for my Father on the Mountain, republished, Permanent Press, Sag Harbor, N.Y, hardback and paperback, 2000. 223 pp.

England 's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. 546pp.

Commonwealth Principles: Republican writing of the English Revolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004; paperback edn., 2007. 402 pp.

Articles and Essays

'Radicalism and Restoration: The shape of the Stuart century', Historical Journal 31, 2, 1988 pp 453-467.

`England 's Troubles: Exhuming the Popish Plot', in Tim Harris, Mark Goldie and Paul Seaward (eds), The Politics of Religion in Restoration England, Blackwells, Oxford, 1990 pp. 107-131.

`The English Republican Imagination', in John Morrill (ed), Revolution and Restoration: England in the 1650s, Collins and Brown, London, 1991 pp. 35-54.

`The Law of War: Grotius, Sidney, Locke and the Political Theory of Rebellion', History of Political Thought (Locke Issue) 13, 4, 1992 pp. 565-585.

`The Law of War: Grotius, Sidney, Locke and the Political Theory of Rebellion', amended version, in Stephen Groenveld and Michael Wintle (eds), Britain and the Netherlands XI: The Exchange of Ideas, Walburg Instituut, Zutphen, 1994.

`The Rapture of Motion: James Harrington's Republicanism', in Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner (eds), Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993 pp. 139-163.

`Restoration Process. Or, if This Isn't a Party We're Not Having a Good Time', Albion 25, 4, 1993 pp. 619-638.

`The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War', in Miles Fairburn and W. H. Oliver (eds), The Certainty of Doubt: Essays in Honour of Peter Munz, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 1996 pp. 90-116.

`England 's Troubles 1603-1702', in Malcolm Smuts (ed), The Stuart Court and Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 20-38.

`The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War', amended version, in G. A. Rogers and Tom Sorrell (eds), Hobbes and History, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 112-136.

`What the Dutch Taught Us: The Late Emergence of the Modern British state', Times Literary Supplement March 16, 2001 pp. 4-6.

`Classical republicanism in seventeenth century England and the Netherlands', in Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner (eds), Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage volume 1: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002 pp. 61-84.

``Good Night Amsterdam'. Sir George Downing and Anglo-Dutch Statebuilding', English Historical Review, cxviii. 476 (Apr. 2003) pp. 334-356.

`What were Commonwealth Principles?', Historical Journal, 47, 3, (2004), pp. 1-23.

`Sidney or Sydney, Algernon 1623-1683', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, September 23, 2004. 7,500 words.

`Downing, Sir George 1623-1684', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, September 23, 2004. 3,500 words.

Poetry

Five poems, Poetry Now (incorporating the Cambridge Poetry Magazine) Autumn 1984, pp 14-16.

Two poems, Islands, New Series vol. 2, no 2, November 1985, pp. 86-88.

Two poems, Landfall 160, vol. 40, no 4, December 1986, pp. 462-464.

Reviews

Of John Miller, Charles II ( London, 1991) in History 1994.

Of Richard Greaves, Secrets of the Kingdom (Stanford, 1992), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History vol 46, no 2, April 1995.

Of Beverley Southgate, Covetous of Truth: The Life and Work of Thomas White 1593-1676 (Dordrecht, 1993), in English Historical Review, April 1996, pp. 466-46

Of Mark Knights Politics and Opinion in Crisis 1678-1681 (Cambridge, 1994), in Parliamentary History 1996.

Of David Wootton (ed), Republicanism, Liberty and Commercial Society 1649-1776 (Stanford, 1994), in Parliamentary History 1997.

Of Markku Peltonen, Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought 1570-1640 (Cambridge, 1995), David Armitage, Armand Himy and Quentin Skinner (eds), Milton and Republicanism (Cambridge, 1995), and Algernon Sidney, Court Maxims (Cambridge 1996), in English Historical Review, September 1997, pp. 949-951.

Of Arihiro Fukuda, Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars (Oxford, 1997), in English HistoricalReview June 2000 pp. 660-662.

Of Steve Hindle, The State and Social Change in Early Modern England c.1550-1640 (London, 2000), and Michael Braddick, State Formation in Early Modern England c.1550-1700 (Cambridge, 2000), in English Historical Review, November 2001, pp. 1225-7.

Of Gary De Krey, London and the Restoration 1659-1683 (Cambridge, 2005) for American Historical Review, 3, 2006.

Essays Pending Publication

'Cromwell's Harrington: James Harrington's prescription for healing and settling'.

'England's Houdini: Charles II's escape from Worcester as a metaphor for his reign'.

Book in Progress

Geography and Empire: Britain's Island Idea, 1500-1800
A study of the geographical content of early modern British thought, particularly development of the idea of Britain as an island nation.

Institutional Responses to Publication

Albion Volume 25, no 4, 1993: `Order and Authority: Creating Party in Restoration England’, debated the thesis of Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis 1677-83 (1991).

At the American Historical Association annual meeting in San Francisco, January 2002, a panel chaired by Richard Greaves, discussed England’s Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context (2000).

Seminar Papers and Public Lectures

Between 1990 and 2002 I gave many invited talks in England, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Germany and the United States.

Between 1997 and 1999 I participated in the European Science Foundation workshops on `Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage’ which met in Gottingen, Wassenaar, Perugia, Bordeaux and Siena.

In 2003 I gave talks or lectures at Princeton University, the University of Tulsa, the University of Sydney, the annual meeting of APSA in Philadelphia, and the University of Ohio, Athens.

In 2004 I presented papers at the European Social Science History Conference in Berlin, at a conference on Royalists and Royalism at Clare College, Cambridge, and at the University of Kansas. I was a commentator on the panel: `Republican Imaginings of the English-British Polity’, panel at the NACBS meeting in Philadelphia.

In 2005, at a symposium on Commonwealth Principles held at the University of Pittsburgh I responded to commentary by Mark Kishlansky, Harvard University, and John Morrill, University of Cambridge.

In 2006, in Amsterdam, I participated in the first of a series of three workshops organized jointly by the Huizinga Institute for Cultural History (Amsterdam), the European University Institute (Florence) and the Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte (Gottingen) on `Dutch Conceptual History in Comparative and International Perspective’. In December 2006 I participated in a workshop 'Friends or Foes? Relations between the History and Theory of Politics' organized by Martin Van Gelderen at the European University Institute, Florence.

Teaching at Pittsburgh

Undergraduate Courses

Stuart England

Texts in Political Thought from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

The Anglo-Dutch achievement, 1550-1750

Republican Writing of the English Revolution

Great South Sea: Britain and the Pacific, 1500-1900

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

Graduate Courses

Republican Writing of the English Revolution

The Anglo-Dutch Achievement, 1550-1750

Texts and Contexts

Administration at Pittsburgh

Member, Graduate Committee 2002-4.

Member, Departmental leadership team for Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate.

Convenor, Graduate Program Speaker Series 2003-4.

Member, Search Committee for tenure-track assistant lecturer in European history 2003-4.

Chair, Search Committee for Mellon Professor of History 2005-6.

Member, Departmental Faculty Advisory Committee 2005-6.

Member, European Union Center of Excellence Advisory Committee 2004-

Member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council 2005-


Jonathan Henry Scott University of Pittsburgh Department of History 3508 Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260-7403 United States of America (412) 648-7481 Fax(412) 648 9074 jos15@pitt.edu http://www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/fac-scott.html Education B.A., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 1979 (History, English, Philosophy, Classics) B.A. (Hons), 1st class in History VUW, NZ 1980 Ph.D. Trinity College, Cambridge, UK 1986 Awards Victoria University Senior Scholarship 1980 Commonwealth Scholarship 1982-5 External Research Studentship, Trinity College, Cambridge 1982-5 Research Fellowship, Magdalene College, Cambridge 1985-7 Newton Trust Fellowship, Faculty of History, Cambridge 1993-8, 1998-2001 British Academy one term extra leave award Michaelmas 1998 British Academy Research Readership 2001- 2002 Senior Visiting Fellow, Dept of History, University of Sydney, Australia, May 2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2006: Commonwealth Principles Present Employment Carroll J. Amundson Professor of British History, University of Pittsburgh Previous Appointments Lecturer in European History, Victoria University of Wellington 1987-88 Lecturer in British History, University of Sheffield 1989-91 Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Downing College, Cambridge 1991-2002 Publications Books Algernon Sidney and the English Republic 1623-1677, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988; paperback edn., 2004. 258 pp. Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis 1677-1683, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991; paperback edn, 2002. 388 pp. Harry's Absence: Looking for my Father on the Mountain, Victoria University of Wellington Press, Wellington, paperback, 1997. 223pp. Harry's Absence: Looking for my Father on the Mountain, republished, Permanent Press, Sag Harbor, N.Y, hardback and paperback, 2000. 223 pp. England 's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. 546pp. Commonwealth Principles: Republican writing of the English Revolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004; paperback edn., 2007. 402 pp. Articles and Essays 'Radicalism and Restoration: The shape of the Stuart century', Historical Journal 31, 2, 1988 pp 453-467. `England 's Troubles: Exhuming the Popish Plot', in Tim Harris, Mark Goldie and Paul Seaward (eds), The Politics of Religion in Restoration England, Blackwells, Oxford, 1990 pp. 107-131. `The English Republican Imagination', in John Morrill (ed), Revolution and Restoration: England in the 1650s, Collins and Brown, London, 1991 pp. 35-54. `The Law of War: Grotius, Sidney, Locke and the Political Theory of Rebellion', History of Political Thought (Locke Issue) 13, 4, 1992 pp. 565-585. `The Law of War: Grotius, Sidney, Locke and the Political Theory of Rebellion', amended version, in Stephen Groenveld and Michael Wintle (eds), Britain and the Netherlands XI: The Exchange of Ideas, Walburg Instituut, Zutphen, 1994. `The Rapture of Motion: James Harrington's Republicanism', in Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner (eds), Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993 pp. 139-163. `Restoration Process. Or, if This Isn't a Party We're Not Having a Good Time', Albion 25, 4, 1993 pp. 619-638. `The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War', in Miles Fairburn and W. H. Oliver (eds), The Certainty of Doubt: Essays in Honour of Peter Munz, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 1996 pp. 90-116. `England 's Troubles 1603-1702', in Malcolm Smuts (ed), The Stuart Court and Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 20-38. `The Peace of Silence: Thucydides and the English Civil War', amended version, in G. A. Rogers and Tom Sorrell (eds), Hobbes and History, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 112-136. `What the Dutch Taught Us: The Late Emergence of the Modern British state', Times Literary Supplement March 16, 2001 pp. 4-6. `Classical republicanism in seventeenth century England and the Netherlands', in Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner (eds), Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage volume 1: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002 pp. 61-84. ``Good Night Amsterdam'. Sir George Downing and Anglo-Dutch Statebuilding', English Historical Review, cxviii. 476 (Apr. 2003) pp. 334-356. `What were Commonwealth Principles?', Historical Journal, 47, 3, (2004), pp. 1-23. `Sidney or Sydney, Algernon 1623-1683', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, September 23, 2004. 7,500 words. `Downing, Sir George 1623-1684', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, September 23, 2004. 3,500 words. Poetry Five poems, Poetry Now (incorporating the Cambridge Poetry Magazine) Autumn 1984, pp 14-16. Two poems, Islands, New Series vol. 2, no 2, November 1985, pp. 86-88. Two poems, Landfall 160, vol. 40, no 4, December 1986, pp. 462-464. Reviews Of John Miller, Charles II ( London, 1991) in History 1994. Of Richard Greaves, Secrets of the Kingdom (Stanford, 1992), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History vol 46, no 2, April 1995. Of Beverley Southgate, Covetous of Truth: The Life and Work of Thomas White 1593-1676 (Dordrecht, 1993), in English Historical Review, April 1996, pp. 466-46 Of Mark Knights Politics and Opinion in Crisis 1678-1681 (Cambridge, 1994), in Parliamentary History 1996. Of David Wootton (ed), Republicanism, Liberty and Commercial Society 1649-1776 (Stanford, 1994), in Parliamentary History 1997. Of Markku Peltonen, Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought 1570-1640 (Cambridge, 1995), David Armitage, Armand Himy and Quentin Skinner (eds), Milton and Republicanism (Cambridge, 1995), and Algernon Sidney, Court Maxims (Cambridge 1996), in English Historical Review, September 1997, pp. 949-951. Of Arihiro Fukuda, Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars (Oxford, 1997), in English HistoricalReview June 2000 pp. 660-662. Of Steve Hindle, The State and Social Change in Early Modern England c.1550-1640 (London, 2000), and Michael Braddick, State Formation in Early Modern England c.1550-1700 (Cambridge, 2000), in English Historical Review, November 2001, pp. 1225-7. Of Gary De Krey, London and the Restoration 1659-1683 (Cambridge, 2005) for American Historical Review, 3, 2006. Essays Pending Publication 'Cromwell's Harrington: James Harrington's prescription for healing and settling'. 'England's Houdini: Charles II's escape from Worcester as a metaphor for his reign'. Book in Progress Geography and Empire: Britain's Island Idea, 1500-1800 A study of the geographical content of early modern British thought, particularly development of the idea of Britain as an island nation. Institutional Responses to Publication Albion Volume 25, no 4, 1993: `Order and Authority: Creating Party in Restoration England’, debated the thesis of Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis 1677-83 (1991). At the American Historical Association annual meeting in San Francisco, January 2002, a panel chaired by Richard Greaves, discussed England’s Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context (2000). Seminar Papers and Public Lectures Between 1990 and 2002 I gave many invited talks in England, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Germany and the United States. Between 1997 and 1999 I participated in the European Science Foundation workshops on `Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage’ which met in Gottingen, Wassenaar, Perugia, Bordeaux and Siena. In 2003 I gave talks or lectures at Princeton University, the University of Tulsa, the University of Sydney, the annual meeting of APSA in Philadelphia, and the University of Ohio, Athens. In 2004 I presented papers at the European Social Science History Conference in Berlin, at a conference on Royalists and Royalism at Clare College, Cambridge, and at the University of Kansas. I was a commentator on the panel: `Republican Imaginings of the English-British Polity’, panel at the NACBS meeting in Philadelphia. In 2005, at a symposium on Commonwealth Principles held at the University of Pittsburgh I responded to commentary by Mark Kishlansky, Harvard University, and John Morrill, University of Cambridge. In 2006, in Amsterdam, I participated in the first of a series of three workshops organized jointly by the Huizinga Institute for Cultural History (Amsterdam), the European University Institute (Florence) and the Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte (Gottingen) on `Dutch Conceptual History in Comparative and International Perspective’. In December 2006 I participated in a workshop 'Friends or Foes? Relations between the History and Theory of Politics' organized by Martin Van Gelderen at the European University Institute, Florence. Teaching at Pittsburgh Undergraduate Courses Stuart England Texts in Political Thought from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment The Anglo-Dutch achievement, 1550-1750 Republican Writing of the English Revolution Great South Sea: Britain and the Pacific, 1500-1900 Geography and Empire: Islands and Nationhood in Early Modern British Writing Graduate Courses Republican Writing of the English Revolution The Anglo-Dutch Achievement, 1550-1750 Texts and Contexts Administration at Pittsburgh Member, Graduate Committee 2002-4. Member, Departmental leadership team for Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. Convenor, Graduate Program Speaker Series 2003-4. Member, Search Committee for tenure-track assistant lecturer in European history 2003-4. Chair, Search Committee for Mellon Professor of History 2005-6. Member, Departmental Faculty Advisory Committee 2005-6. Member, European Union Center of Excellence Advisory Committee 2004- Member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council 2005-