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John Greville Agard Pocock ONZM ( / ˈpoʊkɒk /; 7 March 1924 – 12 December 2023) was a New Zealand historian of political thought. He was especially known for his studies of republicanism in the early modern period (mostly in Europe, Britain, and America), his work on the history of English common law, his treatment of Edward Gibbon and ...
Dec 19, 2023 · J.G.A. Pocock, who brought new perspectives to historical scholarship by arguing that the first step in understanding events of the past is to identify their linguistic and intellectual context,...
Dec 14, 2023 · John Pocock, who has died at the age of ninety-nine only a little short of his hundredth birthday, was a giant of the historical profession. Growing up in New Zealand, embarking on research in Britain and spending most of his career in the United States, Pocock made major contributions to the historiography of each of these disparate places ...
Dec 18, 2023 · Renowned historian J.G.A. Pocock, who upended the study of political thought, dies at 99. Considered one of the greatest historians of his generation, Pocock wove philosophy, political science, and history into a program in political and moral thought that Johns Hopkins University is known for today. Rachel Wallach. / Dec 18, 2023. Media Inquiries.
Dec 14, 2023 · John Pocock, who has died at the age of ninety-nine only a little short of his hundredth birthday, was a giant of the historical profession. Growing up in New Zealand, embarking on research in Britain and spending most of his career in the United States, Pocock made major contributions to the historiography of each of these disparate places ...
Feb 2, 2024 · John Pocock possessed a profoundly historical intelligence, a rarer quality of mind than many professional historians might think: Hugh Trevor-Roper, his senior by ten years, thought in richly allied terms.
May 17, 2024 · Professor J.G.A. Pocock was the Harry C. Black Emeritus Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to the United States, Professor Pocock spent the majority of his early life in New Zealand, receiving his B.A. and M.A. in history at the University of New Zealand.
Feb 1, 2024 · With the passing of John Greville Agard Pocock on December 12, 2023, as he approached his hundredth birthday, the community of intellectual historians (and, in particular, historians of political thought) lost one of its most eminent and influential members.
Dec 19, 2023 · His major works, from The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law to his crowning six-volume study of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Barbarism and Religion (1999–2015), completed at the age of 91, were studies of historical thinking in its multiple national, regional and cosmopolitan contexts.
Dec 23, 2023 · J.G.A. Pocock, a historian who delivered revelatory insights on topics from republicanism to the Enlightenment, from English common law to the American Revolution, and from Aristotle to...
