David Wootton (historian)

David Richard John Wootton (born 15 January 1952) is a British historian. He is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. He has given the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy (2008); the Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford (2014); the Benedict Lectures at Boston University (2014); and the Besterman Lecture at Oxford University (2017).

David Wootton
Born (1952-01-15) 15 January 1952 (age 72)
NationalityBritish
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA, Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsHistory, Intellectual history, Cultural history, History of political thought

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  1. ^ Coleman, Janet (Winter 1986). "Reviewed Work: Paolo Sarpi, Between Renaissance and Enlightenment by David Wootton". History of Political Thought. 7 (3): 579–581. JSTOR 26213321.
  2. ^ McClure, Iain (2006). "Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates". BMJ. 333 (7568): 606. doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7568.606. PMC 1569979.
  3. ^ Gingerich, Owen (24 December 2010). "Starry Messenger (joint review of Galileo by J. L. Heilbron and Galileo: Watcher of the Skies by David Wootton)". NY Times. (See John L. Heilbron.)
  4. ^ Peter Barker, "Wootton and Wittgenstein", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 84 (2020), 95-98, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.08.007.
  5. ^ Daston, Lorraine (28 November 2015). "The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton review — a big bang moment". The Guardian.
  6. ^ Soll, Jacob (2020), review of Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison, The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, Pages 1496–1497, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz676
  7. ^ Matytsin, Anton M. (2021). "Review of Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison by David Wootton". The Journal of Modern History. 93 (2): 440–442. doi:10.1086/713860. S2CID 236331692.
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