Wiley-Blackwell
A Companion to Intellectual History
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- Richard Whatmore
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Paperback
- 9781119125570
- 9.5 X 6.7 X 1.1 inches
- 1.8 pounds
- History > Historiography
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practiced.
- Presents an in-depth survey of recent research and practice of intellectual history
- Written in a clear and accessible manner, designed for an international audience
- Surveys the various methodologies that have arisen and the main historiographical debates that concern intellectual historians
- Pays special attention to contemporary controversies, providing readers with the most current overview of the field
- Demonstrates the ways in which intellectual historians have contributed to the history of science and medicine, literary studies, art history and the history of political thought
Author Bio
I am currently Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Institute of Intellectual History. I came to St Andrews in 2013 from the University of Sussex, where I was Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought.
My research and teaching cover the following topics: Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History (including Politics, International Relations, Political Economy and Religion); Theories of Empire, Democracy and War; Enlightenment and Revolution; Republican Diaspora; Small States and Failed States; Relations between Britain and Europe; Political Cartoons.
My books include: Republicanism and the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2000), Against War and Empire: Geneva, Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century (Yale University Press, 2012), What is Intellectual History? (Polity Press, 2015) and Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans. The Genevans and the Irish in time of Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2019).
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