Felipe Fernández-Armesto was born in London in 1950. He studied History at the University of Oxford, where he spent his academic career in the Faculty of Modern History from 1981 to 2000. He has also held the Chair of World and Environmental History at Queen Mary College, University of London, the Prince of Asturias Chair at Tufts University in Boston and the William P. Reynolds Chair of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has also been a visiting professor or lecturer at other universities and institutions of higher learning, including the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the universities of Harvard, Brown, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Edinburgh. His extensive body of work includes The Spanish Navy (1990), Colón (1992), Millennium (1995), Civilisations (2002), The Americas (2003), Conquerors of the Horizon (2006), 1492, the birth of modernity (2010), Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States (2014) and more recently An empire of engineers (2021).
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto was born in London in 1950. He studied History at the University of Oxford, where he spent his academic career in the Faculty of Modern History from 1981 to 2000. He has also held the Chair of World and Environmental History at Queen Mary College, University of London, the Prince of Asturias Chair at Tufts University, and the Prince of Asturias [...]