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David Wootton

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MA, PhD , FRHistS

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History. He works on the intellectual and cultural history of the English speaking countries, Italy, and France, 1500-1800. He is currently writing a book entitled Power, Pleasure and Profit based on his Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2014. His most recent book is The Invention of Science, published by Allen Lane.

In 2016 he will give the annual Besterman Lecture at the University of Oxford.

He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, and has held positions in history and politics at four British and four Canadian universities, and visiting postions in the US, before coming to York.

David Wootton

3.8/5 ( ratings)

MA, PhD , FRHistS

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History. He works on the intellectual and cultural history of the English speaking countries, Italy, and France, 1500-1800. He is currently writing a book entitled Power, Pleasure and Profit based on his Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2014. His most recent book is The Invention of Science, published by Allen Lane.

In 2016 he will give the annual Besterman Lecture at the University of Oxford.

He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, and has held positions in history and politics at four British and four Canadian universities, and visiting postions in the US, before coming to York.

Books from David Wootton

The Invention of Science: The Scientific Revolution from 1500 to 1750

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Selected Political Writings

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Locke: Political Writings

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The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers

Utopia with Erasmus's The Sileni of Alcibiades

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Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates

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Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche

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Galileo: Watcher of the Skies

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Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

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Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England

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Beekeeping: A Novice's Guide

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Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment

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The Definitive Thelwell

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Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century

Ronald Searle 2003

Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1800-2009

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1800-2010

Bill Brandt

Paul Cox. A Journey Through His Art