Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto (born 1950) is a British historian and author of several popular works of history.
He was born in London, his father was the Spanish journalist Felipe Fernández Armesto and his mother was Betty Millan de Fernandez-Armesto, a British-born journalist and co-founder and editor of The Diplomatist, the in-house journal of the diplomatic corps in London.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto joined the history department at the University of Notre Dame in 2009, after occupying chairs at Tufts University and the University of London (Queen Mary College). He spent most of his career teaching at Oxford, where he was an undergraduate and doctoral student. He has had visiting appointments at many universities and research institutes in Europe and the Americas, and has honorary doctorates from la Trobe University and the Universidad de los Andes.
Fernández-Armesto gained media attention in 2007 for his alleged brutalising by five policemen in Atlanta, Georgia as a result of jaywalking.
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[edit] Awards and honors
Among other distinctions, Fernández-Armesto has won the John Carter Brown Medal, the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum (UK), the Premio Nacional a Investigacion of the Sociedad Geografica Espanola, Soain's Premio Nacional de Grastonomia for his history of food, ant the Tercentenary Medal of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He also received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad de los Andes in 2008.
[edit] Selected works
- The Spanish Armada (1990)
- Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years (1995)
- Reformation: Christianity & the World 1500 - 2000 (1996) (co-authored with Derek Wilson)
- Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed (1997)
- Civilizations (2000).
- Food: A History (published as "Near a Thousand Tables" in US/Can) (2001).
- The Americas (2003).
- Ideas That Changed the World (2003).
- Humankind: A brief History (2004).
- Pathfinders: a Global History of Exploration (2006)
- The World: A Global History (2007).
- 1492. The Year the World Began (2009)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Interview with Fernandez-Armesto regarding the Atlanta incident
- Professor Fernández-Armesto at Queen Mary.
- An interview with TMCQ: "With my usual intellectual perversity, I thought it would be interesting to have a history of the world written from an imaginary perspective. I am interested in shifting perspective. I do believe in objective historical reality. I do believe that the truth is out there and I’m absolutely not a relativist or a postmodernist."
- An interview with Spiked magazine: "I defend people's right to deny the Holocaust and to utter lies — so long as the rest of us remain aware that what they're saying is a lie."
- History News Network video interview with Professor Fernández-Armesto describing his arrest for jaywalking at the American Historical Association in Atlanta in January 2007.
- Daily Mail: 'I was grabbed and thrown in U.S. jail for crossing road'
- HNN: Historian's Arrest for Jaywalking Youtube video circulated several days after the incident of Professor Fernandez-Armesto's account of being arrested and jailed.
- Truth and Authenticity Pulse Berlin
