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Research interests
How empires shape economy, society, politics, and culture at both their centres and peripheries
How ideas and sensibility operate over the long term to shape history, and how, reciprocally, material facts - in particular nature, technology, and economy - order culture and feeling
The British Empire (from Tudor expansion to decolonisation), and the impact of imperial expansion on the British isles
French expansion and its impact on economy and society (c. 1500-1850)
Global and transnational History, in particular Atlantic history
The History of the Caribbean, in particular its intellectual life (both elite and from below) since 1800
Anti-colonial movements in the Twentieth Century
Imperialism after Decolonisation, in particular the neo-imperial moment (since c. 1990)
Research interests (short)
British and French imperial history; Caribbean history; World/ Global /Transnational history; History of Science
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Arts, University of Oxford
Award Date: 1 Jan 1994
Doctor of Philosophy, Imperial Science and a Scientific Empire: Kew Gardens and the Uses of Nature, 1772-1903, Yale University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1993
Master of Philosophy, Yale University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1991
Master of Arts, Yale University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1987
Bachelor of Arts, Sugar Cane Breeding in Barbados: Knowledge and Power in a Colonial Context, Harvard University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1986
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Research output
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Rethinking Nationalism
Aydin, C., Ballor, G., Conrad, S., Cooper, F., Cuunjieng Aboitiz, N., Drayton, R., Goebel, M., Judson, P. M., Kott, S., Miller, N., Roshwald, A., Sluga, G. & Walker, L., 1 Mar 2022, In: AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW. 127, 1, p. 311-371 61 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
6 Citations (Scopus) -
Discussion: The futures of global history
Drayton, R. & Motadel, D., 1 Mar 2018, In: Journal Of Global History. 13, 1, p. 1-21 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Imperial History and the Human Future
Drayton, R., 1 Sept 2012, In: HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL. 74, 1, p. 156-172 17 p., dbr074.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
15 Citations (Scopus) -
Where Does the World Historian Write From? Objectivity, Moral Conscience and the Past and Present of Imperialism
Drayton, R., Jul 2011, In: Journal of Contemporary History. 46, 3, p. 671 - 685 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
48 Citations (Scopus)