Anthony Pagdens research has concentrated on the relationship between the peoples of Europe and its overseas settlements and those of the non-European world from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He is primarily interested in the political theory of empire, in how the West sought to explain to itself how and why it had come to dominate so much of the world, and in the present consequences of the erosion of that domination. His research has led to an interest in the formation of the modern concept of Europe and most recently in the roots of the conflict between the West and the (predominantly Muslim) East. Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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Pagden, A. (2001). Peoples and empires. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Pagden, A. (2002). The idea of Europe: From antiquity to the European union. Cambridge; New York: Woodrow Wilson Center press and Cambridge University Press. [Link]
Pagden, A. (2012). Comment: Empire and its anxieties. The American Historical Review, 117(1), 141-148. doi:10.1086/ahr.117.1.141. [Link]
Pagden, A. (2000). Facing each other: The world’s perception of Europe and Europe’s perception of the world. Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain; Burlington, Vt., USA: Ashgate/Variorum.
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