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Anthony Robin Dermer Pagden (27 May 1945-)the
son of John Brian Dermer Pagden (died 1979) and Joan Mary Pagden
(died 1997) is distinguished professor of political science and
history at the University of
California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Born 27 May 1945, in Sussex, England, Anthony Pagden was
educated at the Grange School (Santiago de Chile) and Westminster
School (London). He attended the University of Barcelona from
1964-7. From 1967-9 he worked as an assistant editor at the Trianon
Press (Paris), and as a free-lance translator. Admitted in 1969 to
Oriel College, Oxford to read
Persian and Arabic, he changed the following year to History and
Spanish. B.A. 1972 (congratulatory First Class Honours) awarded the
De Osma Studentship; M.A. (Oxon) 1979; D.Phil. (Oxon) 1980. He has
been Senior Research Scholar of Worcester College, Oxford,
Junior Research Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, Senior
Research Fellow of the Warburg Institute, and from 1980
until 1997 was Lecturer, and then University Reader in Intellectual
History at Cambridge
University and a Fellow of Girton College and
from 1985-1997 of King's College. In 1997 he succeeded
J.G.A Pocock as the Harry C. Black Professor in History at the Johns Hopkins University. He
was also Professorial Lecturer in International Relations - Global
Theory and History, at the School of Advanced International Studies,
Washington D.C. He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, the European University
Institute, Florence, Italy, the University of Santiago
de Compostela, the Center for Kulturforskning, University of
Aarhus (Denmark), Harvard University, at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia (Madrid) as the Banco de Bilbao y Vizcaya Visiting
Professor of Philosophy, at the Institute for the Humanities,
University of Michigan and at the École des
hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). He is married to
the classical scholar Giulia Sissa, and has two children, Felix
Alexander Xavier Pagden-Ratcliffe (born 1990) and Sebastian George
Aurelian Pagden-Ratcliffe (born 1994) by a previous marriage.
Research
Interests
Anthony Pagden's research has concentrated on the relationship,
cultural, political and legal, 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 interest 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 also led to an interest in the formation of the
modern concept of “Europe” and, most recently in the ideological
relationship between the ‘West” and the Islamic world. He is
currently completing a history of the concept of cosmopolitanism
since the Enlightenment.
Select
Bibliography
- Luis Buñuel, "Simon del deserto" (as translator)
1969
- Hernán Cortés: Letters from Mexico (as editor and
translator) 1972
- Mexican Pictorial Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library
1975
- The Maya: Diego de Landa's "Account of the affairs of
Yucatan" (as editor and translator) 1975
- The Spiritual Conquest of the Mayas 1975
- The Fall of Natural Man: the American Indian and the
origins of comparative anthropology 1983 (winner of the Eugene
Bolton Prize)
- Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination
1990
- European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to
Romanticism 1993
- The Uncertainties of Empire: Essays in Iberian and
Spanish-American Intellectual History 1994
- Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain,
Britain and France, c.1500-c.1800 1995
- Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration,
Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present
2001
- The Idea of Europe from Antiquity to the European
Union (as editor) 2002
- Worlds at War: The 2,500 year Struggle between East and
West 2008 (Winner of the Bronze Medal, Washington Institute
for Near East Policy)
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