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World History and Other Marginal and Perverse Pursuits: An Interview with Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2010

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Interview
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2008

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1 Sorel, Albert, Europe et la révolution française, 9 vols. (Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit, 18851904).Google Scholar

2 Karl Joseph Leyser (1920–1992); A.J.P Taylor (1906–1990); Angus Macintyre (1930–1994).John Stoye's (1917–) books include The Siege of Vienna (1965)Google Scholar; Gerald Harris is author most recently of Shaping the Nation: England 1360–1461 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005).Google Scholar

3 Jacob Cornelis van Leur (1908–1942).

4 Charles Verlinden (1907–1996), Belgian historian of slavery in medieval Europe and the early modern European slave trade.

5 Edward Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande (1937).Google Scholar

6 Keith Thomas (1933– ), whose works include Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England (1971)Google Scholar, and Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility (1983).Google Scholar

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10 See in particular Helms's Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988)Google Scholar, and Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade and Power (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993).Google Scholar