Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor
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)
British and French imperial history; Caribbean history; World/ Global /Transnational history; History of Science
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):
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
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
1/03/2013 → 30/06/2013
Project: Research
Richard Drayton (Member)
Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
Richard Drayton (Member)
Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
Richard Drayton (Member)
Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Richard Drayton (Supervisor)
Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Hosting an academic visitor
Drayton, Richard (Recipient), 2001
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Drayton, Richard (Recipient), 2002
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)