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 is Professor of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University.

From September 2005, he will be Principe de Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization at Tufts University. He is regarded by many as the archetypal superdon.

[edit] Selected works

The Spanish Armada (1990)
Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years (1995).
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).

[edit] Information Piracy concerns

Fernandez-Armesto authored a forthcoming work, The World: A Global History. Volume II: Since 1300 (copyright 2005). However, he shortsightedly handed out early-draft copies of the 800 page manuscript to students enrolled in one of his seminars at Tufts. Several weeks into the semester, illegal copies of the book began appearing on internet file-sharing service "ZeroPaid". The copies were, in fact, sent out by his publishers as test samples. Bootleg copies of the work soon spread across other peer-to-peer works. George Kaplan of the online watchdog MiniPaxNow cited it in his weekly blog as notable examples of the threat to copyright laws posed by P2P.

[edit] External links

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 Spike 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."