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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 · Professor Pocock, whose teaching career included a long stint at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, wrote or edited books that had a marked influence on the fields of history and political...
Dec 18, 2023 · Pre-eminent historian J.G.A. Pocock, whose erudite presence has towered for generations at the intersection of intellectual history, history of political thought, and history of law, died in Baltimore on Dec. 12 at the age of 99.
- Rachel Wallach
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 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 ...
- Emily Langer
Feb 5, 2024 · J. G. A. Pocock, pathbreaking historian of ideas, passed away at age 99 on December 12, 2023. He was a leading scholar of 17th- and 18th-century Britain; of Italian, British, and Atlantic traditions of “civic republicanism;” and of multiple dimensions of the British and European Enlightenments.
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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 ...
