J. G. A. Pocock
✓ Source-basedfallingNew Zealand historian (1924-2023)
John Greville Agard Pocock was a New Zealand historian of political thought. He was especially known for his studies of republicanism in the early modern period, his work on the history of English common law, his treatment of Edward Gibbon and other Enlightenment historians, and, in historical method, for his...
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John Greville Agard Pocock was a New Zealand historian of political thought. He was especially known for his studies of republicanism in the early modern period, his work on the history of English common law, his treatment of Edward Gibbon and other Enlightenment historians, and, in historical method, for his contributions to the history of political discourse. After his death, Yuan Yi Zhu wrote that Pocock was "one of the greatest scholars of the last century" in European political thought.
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