| A turn to empire: The rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France J Pitts Princeton University Press, 2005 | 1593 | 2005 |
| Boundaries of the international: law and empire J Pitts Harvard University Press, 2018 | 220 | 2018 |
| Political theory of empire and imperialism J Pitts Annual Review of Political Science 13, 211-235, 2010 | 205 | 2010 |
| Writings on Empire and Slavery A Tocqueville, J Pitts Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 | 180* | 2003 |
| Empire and legal universalisms in the eighteenth century J Pitts The American Historical Review 117 (1), 92-121, 2012 | 89 | 2012 |
| Empire and democracy: Tocqueville and the Algeria question J Pitts Journal of Political Philosophy 8 (3), 295-318, 2000 | 86 | 2000 |
| Boundaries of Victorian international law J Pitts IDEAS IN CONTEXT 86 (1), 67-88, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| Legislator of the world? A rereading of Bentham on colonies J Pitts Political Theory 31 (2), 200-234, 2003 | 62 | 2003 |
| The Law of Nations in Global History CH Alexandrowicz, D Armitage, J Pitts | 57 | 2017 |
| Colonialism and its legacies T Alfred, D Chakabarty, E Dussel, E Eze, V Hsueh, M Kohn, PB Mehta, ... Lexington Books, 2011 | 53 | 2011 |
| Essay on Algeria A Tocqueville, J Pitts Writings on Empire and Slavery, 59-116, 2001 | 44 | 2001 |
| Intervention and sovereign equality: legacies of Vattel J Pitts Just and unjust military intervention: European thinkers from Vitoria to …, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| Liberalism and empire in a nineteenth-century Algerian mirror J Pitts Modern Intellectual History 6 (2), 287-313, 2009 | 31 | 2009 |
| Irony in Adam Smith’s critical global history J Pitts Political Theory 45 (2), 141-163, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Naissance de la bonne conscience coloniale: les libéraux français et britanniques et la question impériale, 1770-1870 J Pitts Editions de l'Atelier, 2008 | 23 | 2008 |
| International relations and the critical history of International Law J Pitts International Relations 31 (3), 282-298, 2017 | 20 | 2017 |
| Great and Distant Crimes: Empire in Bentham’s Thought J Pitts Selected Writings: Jeremy Bentham, 478-499, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Quand les empires se partageaient le monde: naissance de la bonne conscience coloniale J Pitts Editions de l'Atelier, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
| Bentham’s “Place and Time” SG Engelmann, J Pitts The Tocqueville Review 32 (1), 43-66, 2011 | 16 | 2011 |
| ‘This Modern Grotius’: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of CH Alexandrowicz D Armitage, J Pitts The Law of Nations in Global History, 1-34, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
David ArmitageLloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard UniversityVerified email at fas.harvard.edu
