About Richard Whatmore
Born 1968. Richard Whatmore is an academic, historian, economist and university teacher.
Richard Whatmore (born January 19, 1968) is a professor of modern history at the University of St Andrews. His research topics include intellectual history. He is the editor-in-chief of History of European Ideas.
Books The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis (Penguin Books Ltd, 2023) The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2022) Terrorists, Anarchists, And Republicans: The Genevans And The Irish In Time Of Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2019) What is Intellectual History? (Polity, 2015) Against War and Empire (Yale University Press, 2012) Republicanism and the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2000)
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Who is Richard Whatmore?
Professor of Modern History and Director of the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews
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Richard Whatmore was born in 1968 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Richard Whatmore is an academic, historian, economist and university teacher.
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