David Armitage Books

A seemingly ordinary cornflake takes center stage in this whimsical tale, revealing its extraordinary journey and significance. Through a blend of humor and imagination, the story explores themes of uniqueness and the hidden magic in everyday objects. The narrative invites readers to see the world through a different lens, celebrating the charm found in the mundane and encouraging a sense of wonder.

A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world

Dreams can be anything you want them to be, but imagine flying through space doing cartwheels, flying past a giant floating doggy biscuit, or realizing that planet Mars, was in fact a giant chocolate bar. But this is just part of the story. Connor used to be such a happy little boy, but world events had made him sad and confused. Despite the best efforts of his mum and dad, and all the people who loved him, to cheer him up, nothing seemed to work. A new plan was needed, but would it work? It didn't take long for Connor and his new dog, Sparky, to become the best of friends. At night-time, sleeping soundly, the pair would begin to have the wildest of adventures together. Join them on their first as they race aliens around Saturn and try to beat the current intergalactic champion. Starting from the back, the dynamic duo would need all their skills, determination, and resilience, to cross the 'Slime Line' first, but could they, do it?

Another scrumptious offering from the Lighthouse Keeper team! Mrs Grinling is the best cook in the world and Mr Grinling likes nothing better than to taste her delicious treats. But when he overindulges at the village picnic, he finds himself in a pickle and suddenly wishes he hadn't eaten quite so much.

David J. Armitage explores interpretations of poverty in the Greco-Roman and Jewish contexts of the New Testament, and, in the light of this, considers how approaches to poverty in the New Testament texts may be regarded as distinctive. Explanations for the plight of the poor and supposed solutions to the problem of poverty are discussed, noting the importance in Greco-Roman settings of questions about poverty's relation to virtue and vice, and the roles of fate and chance in impoverishment. Such debates were peripheral for strands of the Jewish tradition where poverty discourse was shaped by narrative frameworks incorporating transgression, curse, and the anticipated rescue of the righteous poor. These elements occur in New Testament texts, which endorse wider Jewish concern for the poor while reconfiguring hope for the end of poverty around an inaugurated eschatology centred on Jesus.

In this insightful and wide-ranging work, David Armitage advances the burgeoning field of international intellectual history. He combines important methodological essays with original scholarship that examines afresh the contribution of leading figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Burke and Bentham to the history of international thought.

This text was the first edited collection on the burgeoning history of the early modern Atlantic world and has had a huge impact on the many fields of Atlantic Studies. This second edition features two new essays on science and global history respectively, as well as a revised Introduction and updated guides to further reading.

A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day. We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern Europe to our present day. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is a ruler or a rebel, victor or vanquished, sufferer or outsider. Calling a conflict a civil war can shape its outcome by determining whether outside powers choose to get involved or stand aside: from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, pivotal decisions have depended on such shifts of perspective. The age of civil war in the West may be over, but elsewhere in the last two decades it has exploded--from the Balkans to Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, and Sri Lanka, and most recently Syria. And the language of civil war has burgeoned as democratic politics has become more violently fought. This book's unique perspective on the roots and dynamics of civil war, and on its shaping force in our conflict-ridden world, will be essential to the ongoing effort to grapple with this seemingly interminable problem.

Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and China, the chapters shed new light on this pivotal period of world history.