The Reef

<h4>David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. His books include <em>Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People</em> (co-edited, 2014) and (with Jo Guldi) <em>The History Manifesto</em> (2014).</h4>

David Armitage

A Labyrinth of Terror Made of Coral and a Fragile Global Wonder

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. His books include <em>Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People</em> (co-edited, 2014) and (with Jo Guldi) <em>The History Manifesto</em> (2014).