| 词条 | Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto (born 1950) is a British historian and author of several popular works of history. Life and careerHe was born in London, his father was the Spanish journalist Felipe Fernández Armesto and his mother was Betty Millan de Fernandez-Armesto, a British-born journalist and co-founder and editor of The Diplomatist, the in-house journal of the diplomatic corps in London. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto joined the history department at the University of Notre Dame in 2009, after occupying chairs at Tufts University and the University of London (Queen Mary College). He had spent most of his career teaching at Oxford, where he was an undergraduate and doctoral student. He has had visiting appointments at many universities and research institutes in Europe and the Americas, and has honorary doctorates from La Trobe University and the University of the Andes, Colombia. He began his teaching career at Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey. In 1982 he published The Canary Islands after the Conquest: The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early Sixteenth Century, an archival study of the Canary Islands during the period of their original settlement. In 1987 he published Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic 1229–1492, a study of the earliest phase of European imperialism when Europeans left the Mediterranean and colonized the islands along the northwest coast of Africa. Fernández-Armesto gained media attention in 2007 for his alleged brutalising by five policemen in Atlanta, Georgia, as a result of jaywalking.[1][2] Awards and honoursAmong other distinctions, Fernández-Armesto has won the John Carter Brown Medal, the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum (UK), the Premio Nacional an Investigacion of the Sociedad Geográfica Española, Spain's Premio Nacional de Gastronomia for his history of food, and the Tercentenary Medal of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Selected works
As editor
References1. ^History News Network video interview with Professor Fernández-Armesto describing his arrest for jaywalking at the American Historical Association in Atlanta in January 2007. 2. ^{{cite news |last1=Clout |first1=Laura |title=Historian 'pinned to ground by US police and beaten for jaywalking' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1539148/Historian-pinned-to-ground-by-US-police-and-beaten-for-jaywalking.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=11 January 2007 }} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://international.nd.edu/about/news/history-professor-felipe-fernandez-armesto-awarded-civil-order-of-alfonso-x-the-wise/|title=History professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto awarded Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise|last=Buznea|first=Rina|date=April 28, 2017|website=Notre Dame International|access-date=}} External links
14 : 1950 births|Living people|Writers from London|Academics of Queen Mary University of London|English anarchists|English educators|English historians|Historians of Spain|Tufts University faculty|English people of Spanish descent|Victims of police brutality|Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford|Stateless nationalism in Europe|Recipients of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise |
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