Richard Drayton
Richard Drayton FRHS | |
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Born | 1964 (age 59–60) |
Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
Parent(s) | Kathleen (née McCracken) and Harold Drayton |
Awards | Philip Leverhulme Prize |
Academic background | |
Education | Harrison College |
Alma mater | Harvard University Balliol College, Oxford Yale University |
Doctoral advisor | Paul Kennedy |
Academic work | |
Institutions |
Richard Drayton
Biography
Early years and education
Richard Drayton was born in Guyana in 1964, to parents Kathleen (née McCracken; 1930–2009) and Harold Drayton (1929–2018),[1][2] and grew up in Barbados, where he migrated with his family in 1972.[3] 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
Academic career
From 1992, Drayton was a Research Fellow of
Other activities
In November 2010, he spoke on "Economic lies and cuts" at a student "occupation" organised by Cambridge Defend Education
Publications
Drayton is the author of Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World (Yale University Press, 2000), which received the Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association in 2001 as the best book in British and British Imperial History (1999–2001).[9] In 2002, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History.[10]
As co-editor of the scholarly book series Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, he has commissioned and published more than 40 titles since 2006. He sits on the editorial board of the
"Imperial History and the Human Future", his inaugural lecture as Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London, was published by History Workshop Journal in 2012.[12]
Drayton has also written for national publications such as
See also
- British Empire
- World history
- Paul Kennedy
- Christopher Bayly
- Wm. Roger Louis
- Peter James Marshall
Bibliography
- Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000.
References
- ^ Rickey Singh, "Celebrating Life of Kathleen Drayton", Guyana Chronicle, 18 July 2009.
- ^ Harry Hergash (13 March 2018), "Dr Harold Drayton (1929–2018) is dead…. but his Legacy will Live On", Guyanese Online.
- ^ "Dr. Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, Kings College in London", SWSML Essay Competition 2016.
- ^ "Richard Drayton", The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.
- ^ ISBN 9781000555271.
- ^ "Professor Richard Drayton". Gresham College.
- ^ "Cambridge occupation issues ultimatum to University management". Varsity Online. 1 December 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ^ "Prof. Richard Drayton on 'Economic Lies & Cuts' (1/4)", Cambridge Defend Education; YouTube, 28 November 2010.
- ^ Sharon K. Tune (2002), "116th Annual Meeting Awards and Honors", Perspectives on History, March 2002, American Historical Association.
- ^ Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2002, p. 4, The Leverhulme Trust, www.leverhulme.ac.uk.
- ^ Editorial Board, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Taylor & Francis Online.
- ^ Richard Drayton, "Imperial History and the Human Future", History Workshop Journal, Volume 74, Issue 1, 1 October 2012, pp. 156–172, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbr074.
- ^ "Richard Drayton, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S.", Guyana Journal.
Further reading
- Alan Macfarlane, Imperialism and Colonialism: Christopher Bayly, Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton, ISBN 9781000555271
External links
- Professor Richard Drayton, Faculty web page, King's College London. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
- Works by or about Richard Drayton, WorldCat.org
- Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 26 September 2017 (video)
- "Decolonising History Project: Interview with Dr Richard Drayton", KCL Latin American Society, 4 September 2021.
- "Slavery, Capitalism, Europe's Empires & Its Hinterlands: A view from the Caribbean – Richard Drayton", Krea University, 23 February 2022.