He focuses on the centuries from 1500 to 1800. SIDELIGHTS:ĭavid Wootton is a historian and scholar whose primary interest is in the intellectual and cultural history of English-speaking countries, as well as Italy and France. (And author of introductions) Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche, Hackett (Indianapolis, IN), 2007. (And author of introduction and notes) Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Hackett (Indianapolis, IN), 2005. (And author of introduction) John Locke, Political Writings, Hackett (Indianapolis, IN), 2003. (And author of introduction) The Essential Federalist and Anti- Federalist Papers, Hackett (Indianapolis, IN), 2003. (And author of introduction) Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England, Hackett (Indianapolis, IN), 2003. (And translator and author of introduction) Thomas More, Utopia, Hackett (Indianapolis, IN), 1999. (And translator) Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Hackett (Indianapolis, IN), 1995. (And translator) Niccolo Machiavelli, Selected Political Writings, Hackett (Indianapolis, IN), 1994. Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649-1776, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 1994. (With Michael Hunter) Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, Clarendon Press (Oxford, England), 1992. (Translator and author of introduction) Voltaire, Candide and Related Texts, Hackett (Indianapolis, IN), 2000.īad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates, Oxford University Press ( New York, NY), 2006.Ĭontributor to periodicals, including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and London Review of Books, and to Web sites, including the Social Affairs Unit. Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press ( New York, NY), 1983. Louis, MO, visiting fellow, 1990 and Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, visiting fellow, 1992-93. Peterhouse, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, research fellow, 1975-76 McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, visiting professor of political science, 1980-82 Center for the History of Freedom, Washington University, St.

Westfield College, University of London, London, England, lecturer in history, 1976-82 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, assistant professor, 1982-85, associate professor of history, 1985-87 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, associate professor of political science, 1987-89 University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Lansdowne Chair in the Humanities, 1989-95, associate professor, 1989-91, professor of history, 1991-95, founding director of Humanities Center, 1991-95 Brunel University, West London, England, professor of politics and head of the department of government, 1994-96, professor of history and dean of faculty of arts, 1996-98, acting head of performing arts, 1996-98 Queen Mary, University of London, London, England, professor of intellectual history, 1998-2004 University of York, York, England, anniversary professor of history, 2004.

Office-Department of History, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, England. Education: Peterhouse, Cambridge University, M.A., Ph.D. Born Januson of Canon R.W.F (a cleric) and Joan Wootton partner of Alison Mark children: (previous marriage) Lisa, Thomas.

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