Libros de Richard Whatmore

Historia Intelectual

• 256 páginas
• El propósito de este libro breve es ofrecer a los lectores no especializados una idea de lo que es la historia intelectual y de lo que los historiadores intelectuales hacen.

The History Of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction

• 137 páginas
• Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to have...

Terrorists, Anarchists, And Republicans

• 510 páginas
• In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known...

Commerce And Peace In The Enlightenment

What Is Intellectual History

• What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as..

What Is Intellectual History?

• 180 páginas
• Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided...

Against War And Empire: Geneva, Britain, And France In The Eighteenth Century

• 416 páginas
• As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercia...

History, Religion, And Culture

• 289 páginas
• Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of...