Patrick Amory

= Early life =

Patrick Amory was born in New York City on July 10, 1965 to literary parents. His father, the late Hugh Amory, was noted as the most "rigorous" and "methodologically sophisticated" historian of the book in early America. [(2005), " [http://www.oakknoll.com/detail.php?d_booknr=90368&d_currency= Bibliography and the Book Trades (quoted from front flap)] ". (by Hugh Amory)] He attended the Commonwealth School in Boston, Massachusetts.

Academia

Patrick Amory gained a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University, and subsequently an M. Phil. and Ph. D. at the University of Cambridge in late antique and early medieval history and published [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521571510 'People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554'] (Cambridge University Press). Amory's book was considered an "illustration of the recent interest of historians in ethnogenesis" [(March 1998), " [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb141/is_199803/ai_hibm1G120815881 History: Review of New Books] ". (by Sivan, Hagith)] and described as "brilliant and remorseless" [(Fall 2002), " [http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/arethusa/v033/33.3brown.html The Study of Elites in Late Antiquity] ". (Arethusa - Volume 33, Number 3, Fall 2000, pp. 321-346)] by Peter Brown (historian). The book attempted to up-end the theory of the barbarian invasions and the fall of the Western Roman Empire, via a case-study of individual reactions in the province of Italy, a core region of the Mediterranean culture-province, during a period of intense political change.

Music industry

Amory had been active in independent rock since the 1980s. In 1994 he left academia to work as general manager of Matador Records, one of the premier independent rock record labels of the 1990s. Amory together with Gerard Cosloy and Chris Lombardi at Matador Records are credited with pursuing the preservation of artistic freedom while preserving a viable business model through "realistic success" [(December 27 2005), " [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/arts/music/27musi.html?ei=5088&en=7d783101017430f0&ex=1293339600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all The Net Is a Boon for Indie Labels] ". (New York Times)] . Amory has lived and worked in New York City since 1994.

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