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Research interests
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)
Research interests (short)
British and French imperial history; Caribbean history; World/ Global /Transnational history; History of Science
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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):
Education/Academic qualification
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
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Anticolonial Nationalism: Politics as a Domain of “Forced Poetics”
Drayton, R., 12 Jan 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie.
Drayton, R., 29 Mar 2022, In: AFRICA (LONDON). p. 283Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Rethinking Nationalism
Aydin, C., Ballor, G., Conrad, S., Cooper, F., Cuunjieng Aboitiz, N., Drayton, R., Goebel, M., Judson, P. M., Kott, S., Miller, N., Roshwald, A., Sluga, G. & Walker, L., 1 Mar 2022, In: AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW. 127, 1, p. 311-371 61 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Histoire sociale de l'Europe et tournant global Une rencontre tardive
Drayton, R., 2021, In: Annales. 76e, 4, p. 751-761 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Commonwealth History From Below? Caribbean national, federal and Pan-African renegotiations of the Empire project, c. 1880- 1950
Drayton, R., 2 Jul 2020, Commonwealth history in the twenty-first century. Dubow, S. & Drayton, R. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 41-60 21 p. (Cambridge Imperial and Postcolonial Studies Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Projects
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Interrogating the impact of an influx of mixed raced children from the Caribbean into Britain at the end of the 18th century
1/03/2013 → 30/06/2013
Project: Research
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International Research Collaboration Award, Department of History, University of Sydney
Richard Drayton (Member)
Aug 2013 → Sept 2013Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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Professeur Invité, EHESS, Paris
Richard Drayton (Member)
May 2013 → Jun 2013Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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Chair of the Judges, Bocas Literary Prize (premier Caribbean literary prize)
Richard Drayton (Member)
2013Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
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Dr Hang Cong, Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, "Agriculture, Economic Development and the late colonial state in Africa"
Richard Drayton (Supervisor)
1 Oct 2012 → 30 Sept 2013Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Hosting an academic visitor
Prizes
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Morris Forkosch Prize for British and British Imperial History
Drayton, Richard (Recipient), 2001
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Philip Leverhulme Prize for History
Drayton, Richard (Recipient), 2002
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)