Associate Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice

BEc (Hons) (Sydney) PhD (St John's College, Cambridge)
Room 846 Brennan Building

+61 2 9351 2472

Andrew Fitzmaurice joined the Department of History in 1999. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge (1995-7), and a U2000 Research Fellow in the Department of Government, Sydney University (1997-9). Andrew is currently Chair of the Department of History.

Research Areas

• Early Modern British, European and Atlantic history
• intellectual history
• the history of political thought
• the history of colonisation.

Selected Publications

Books

David Armitage, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice, eds., Shakespeare and early modern political thought (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Humanism and America: An intellectual history of English colonisation, 1500-1625. (Ideas in Context; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003)

Guest Edited Journal

The Intellectual History of Early Modern Empire, guest edited Special Issue of Renaissance Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (September, 2012)

Articles

'Neither neo-Roman nor liberal empire', Renaissance Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (September, 2012)

'Powhatan legal claims', in Saliha Belmessous, ed., Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Liberalism and Empire in Nineteenth Century International Law’, American Historical Review, Vol. 117, No. 1 (February 2012)

‘Discovery, Conquest, and Occupation of Territory’ in The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, edited by Bardo Fassbender, Anne Peters and Simone Peter (Oxford, 2012)

‘The justification of King Leopold II’s Congo enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss’, in Ian Hunter and Shaunnagh Dorsett, eds., Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought (Palgrave, 2010)

‘The corruption of Hamlet’, in David Armitage, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice, eds., Shakespeare and early modern political thought (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

‘The resilience of natural law in the writings of Sir Travers Twiss’, in Ian Hall and Lisa Hill, eds., British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier (Palgrave, 2009)

‘The Commercial Ideology of Colonisation in Jacobean England: Robert Johnson, Giovanni Botero and the Pursuit of Greatness.’, William and Mary Quarterly, October 2007

‘A genealogy of terra nullius’, Australian Historical Studies, April 2007

‘Moral uncertainty in the dispossession of native Americans’, in Peter Mancall, ed., Virginia and the Atlantic world, Omohundro Institute of Early American History, (Chapel Hill, 2007)

‘American corruption’, in John McDiarmid, ed., The monarchical republic in early modern England (Aldershot, 2007)

'Anti-Colonialism in Western Political Thought: The Colonial Origins of the Concept of Genocide', in A. Dirk Moses, ed., Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York, 2008)

‘Rights and nationhood: The beginnings’, in The world of 1607, The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation (Yorktown, 2007)

‘American colonization tracts and other promotional literature’, in The world of 1607, The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, (Yorktown, 2007)

'The ideology of early modern colonisation', History Compass, February, 2004

"Every Man, that Prints, Adventures: The Rhetoric of the Virginia Company Sermons", in Lori Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough (eds.), The English Sermon Revised: Religion, Literature and History, 1500 - 1800, (Manchester University Press, Manchester 2000)

"Classical Rhetoric and the Promotion of the New World", The Journal of the History of Ideas, 58 (1997), 221-44

"The Civic Solution to the Crisis of English Colonisation 1609 -1625", The Historical Journal, 42, I (1999)

Areas of teaching and research supervision

Teaching

• HSTY1031 Renaissance and Reformation
• HSTY2650 European Conquests 1500-1750

Supervision

• Early modern history
• Intellectual history
• European expansion