Eating One’s Own: Examining Civil War is an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and intellectual historian David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. This conversation covers David Armitage’s extensive research on the history of ideas of civil war from Ancient Rome to the present.
A salient feature of his work is a strong focus on etymology as it relates to our understanding of how people interpreted (or misinterpreted) and perceived events in history which results in a fascinating exploration of how our understanding of various concepts has been prejudiced by past societies and past beliefs that we might not even be aware of, and how they, in turn, go on to influence other societies; and how this cumulative process frames our understanding of these ideas.
This conversation has been released in a carefully-edited video format and as an enhanced book, while David Armitage is also featured in four short documentaries – all details are below.
This enhanced book is available in electronic format on all major booksellers, including:
Eating One’s Own: Examining Civil War is also part of the five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection, Conversations About History, Volume 3, which is available in hardcover, paperback and electronic format.
David Armitage is featured in 4 short documentaries together with a wide range of other renowned historians, including Quentin Skinner, Margaret Jacob, Josiah Ober, Maria Mavroudi, John Elliott, Martin Jay and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.
