Associate Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice

BEc (Hons) (Sydney) PhD (Cambridge)
Senior Lecturer
Room 846 Brennan Building

+61 2 9351 2472

Andrew Fitzmaurice BEc (Hons) Sydney University; MA (Hons) University of New South Wales; PhD St John's College, Cambridge 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).

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

• The price of freedom
• State formation and European expansion
• A history of terra nullius

Une histoire de Terra Nullius Librairie L’Atalante (Nantes, forthcoming 2008) – contract signed January 20, 2007 [this will be a French edition of my A history of terra nullius which is in preparation for a major university press]

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

‘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 Review, 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., Genocide and colonialism, forthcoming Berghan Books 2006.

‘Rights and nationhood: The beginnings’, in The world of 1607, The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, forthcoming.

‘American colonization tracts and other promotional literature’, in The world of 1607, The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, forthcoming.

'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).

• HSTY 1031 Renaissance and Reformation
• HSTY2050 European Conquests 1500-1750

• Early modern history
• intellectual history
• European expansion

Shakespeare’s political thought

With David Armitage and Conal Condren, I organised a conference at the Humanities Research Centre, ANU, on Shakepeare’s political thought. The conference was held on July 12-14, 2006 (Details).

A volume of essays is projected to follow.

This conference was generously funded by the HRC, the Network for Early European Research (NEER), and the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS) at the University of Sydney.