CSPAN2 Civil Wars February 26, 2017
He is an affiliated professor in the Harvard Department of government, an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Law School and an honorary fellow of st. Catherines college in cambridge. His previous books include the ideological origins of the british empire, winner of the longman History Today book of the year award, the declaration of independence a global history, which was a Times Literary Supplement book of the year, and the history manifesto which was a new statesman book of the year. His new book, civil wars a history and ideas, examines the history of the very notion of civil war from i...