Richard Drayton
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Drayton FRHistS is a Guyana-born historian and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London. Biography Richard Drayton was born in Guyana in 1964, to parents Kathleen and Harold Drayton , and grew up in Barbados, where he migrated with his family in 1972. He went to school at Harrison College in Bridgetown, from which he left as a Barbados Scholar to Harvard University. He was a graduate student at Balliol College, Oxford as the Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholar, and at Yale University, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation under the direction of Paul Kennedy.
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- Nature's Government. Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World (2000) (441)
- Discussion: the futures of global history (2018) (94)
- Where Does the World Historian Write From? Objectivity, Moral Conscience and the Past and Present of Imperialism (2011) (50)
- Imperial History and the Human Future (2012) (23)
- Imperial London: Civil Government Building in London 1851-1915 (1999) (22)
- The globalisation of France: Provincial cities and French expansion c. 1500–1800 (2008) (19)
- Science and the Euopean empires (1995) (16)
- Nature's Government Science, British Imperialism and the Improvement of the World (2000) (15)
- Federal Utopias and the Realities of Imperial Power (2017) (15)
- Science, Medicine, and the British Empire (1999) (15)
- Imperial science and a scientific empire : Kew Gardens and the uses of nature, 1772-1903 (1993) (13)
- Rhodes Must Not Fall? (2019) (12)
- Knowledge and Empire (1998) (10)
- 'The Collaboration of Labour: Slaves, Empires, and Globalizations in the Atlantic World, c. 1600-1850 (2002) (10)
- The Problem of the Hero(ine) in Caribbean History (2011) (8)
- Kew: The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens by Ray Desmond Harvill/Royal Botanical Gardens (review of) (1996) (7)
- Maritime Networks and the Making of Knowledge (2007) (6)
- Science in the Service of Empire: SirJoseph Banks, The British State, and the Uses o f Science in the Age of Revolution, by John Gascoigne (2000) (5)
- ‘Secondary Decolonization': The Black Power Moment in Barbados c. 1970 (2014) (4)
- The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa (2013) (4)
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (1998) (4)
- Beyond Humanitarian Imperialism: The dubious origins of “Humanitarian Intervention” and some rules for its future' (2013) (3)
- Gilberto Freyre and the Twentieth-Century Rethinking of Race in Latin America (2022) (3)
- The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain (2005) (3)
- Masked Condominia: Pan-European Collaboration in the History of Imperialism, c. 1500 to the present (translated into Chinese by Sun Yue) (2012) (2)
- The Caribbean and the Making of the Modern World (2010) (2)
- Putting the British into the Empire (2005) (2)
- Whose Constitution? Law, Justice and History in the Caribbean: 6th Distinguished Jurist Lecture (2016) (2)
- Material conditions and ideas in global history. (2021) (1)
- Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century (2020) (1)
- The strange late birth of the British Academy (2005) (1)
- Anglo-American "Liberal" Imperialism: British Guiana, 1953 - 64 and the World Since September 11 (2005) (1)
- Why do Empires Rise (2005) (1)
- The Commonwealth in the 21st Century (2016) (1)
- Biggar vs Little Britain: God, War, Union, Brexit and Empire in Twenty-first century Conservative ideology (2019) (1)
- Economic Relations Between Britain and Australia from the 1940s-196 (2001) (0)
- The Sky's Wild Noise (2012) (0)
- Mary Chamberlain, Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937–66 (2012) (0)
- Collection and Comparison in the Sciences: A Seminar Manifesto (1996) (0)
- Simon P Newman. A New World of Labor. The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic. [The Early Modern Americas.] University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia2013. viii, 327 pp. Ill. £36.00. (2016) (0)
- Introduction: The Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century (2020) (0)
- Imperialism and the Rise of Modern Europe: A New Research Programme (2013) (0)
- In the Savants' Service (1996) (0)
- Of Empire and Political Economy (2013) (0)
- review of Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760-1860 by Ann B. Shteir (1997) (0)
- West Indian Slavery and British Abolitionism, 1783-1807 (2010) (0)
- 16. Race, Culture, and Class: European Hegemony and Global Class Formation, circa 1800–1950 (2019) (0)
- Foreword: A Wondering Eye (2012) (0)
- Book reviews (2001) (0)
- The Masks of Imperial Power (2013) (0)
- Janet Weston, Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s: Diagnosing Deviance (London: (2018) (0)
- Beyond Humanitarian Imperialism (2013) (0)
- Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777@@@Writing West Indian Histories (2001) (0)
- The Caribbean Origins of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (2022) (0)
- "Race, Culture and Class: European Hegemony and Global Class Formation, c. 1800-1950" (2019) (0)
- Synchronic Palimpsests: Work, Power and the Transcultural History of Knowledge (2012) (0)
- Race, Culture, and Class (2019) (0)
- Reviewed work(s): Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius by William Kelleher Storey (2000) (0)
- Biggar vs Little Britain (2019) (0)
- Racial-state-capitalism? The role of the state in making the (colonial) bourgeoisie (2022) (0)
- European Social History (2022) (0)
- Response to Arjun Appadurai’s “Globalization and the Rush to History” (2020) (0)
- The Origins of the European Botanical Garden: Interview of Richard Drayton by J-C Royoux (2005) (0)
- The Arts and Humanities: Endangered species? (2011) (0)
- [Learning from the French: science and the second British Empire, 1780-1830]. (1999) (0)
- James Bowie (c.1789–1869), gardener and botanist (2004) (0)
- Henri IV et la Fondation de l'Hortus regius monspeliensis (1994) (0)
- John Lindley (1799–1865), botanist and horticulturist (2009) (0)
- Odida T. Quamina, The Mineworkers of Guyana: The Making of a Working Class . London: Zed Press, 1987. 118 pp. (1989) (0)
- Book Review:Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius William Kelleher Storey (2000) (0)
- Commonwealth History from Below? Caribbean National, Federal and Pan-African Renegotiations of the Empire Project, c. 1880–1950 (2019) (0)
- Black Power in the Caribbean (2013) (0)
- Race, Culture, and Class: (2019) (0)
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