Peter Watson (business writer)

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Peter Watson is a business writer, intellectual historian and author from London, England.

He has written for The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Spectator. In June 1997, he was appointed Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He has written several books.

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  • The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums (2006) ISBN 1-58648-402-8 (with Cecilia Todeschini)
  • Ideas: A history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud (2005) ISBN 0-06-621064-X
  • Modern Mind: An intellectual history of the 20th century (2001) ISBN 0-06-008438-3 (published elsewhere as "A Terrible Beauty")
  • Sotheby's: The Inside Story (1998) ISBN 0-679-41403-7
  • Landscape of Lies (1989) ISBN 1-933397-18-7
  • The Caravaggio Conspiracy (1984) ISBN 0385170696