Biography

Richard Whatmore was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Harvard, and holds a doctorate from the former. He is Director of the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History and Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of History, Art History and Philosophy.

Research

Whatmore works on French, British and Swiss intellectual history during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History he is involved in a number of digitization projects, concerned with eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century intellectual history and with the research of contemporary intellectual historians.

His most recent book, Against War and Empire: Geneva, Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century is now available from Yale University Press.

At undergraduate level Whatmore teaches courses on the Early Modern World, the Enlightenment, the French Revolutionary period, and the history of democracy (History Special Subject: Democracy and War). At postgraduate level he teaches on the Intellectual History MA and the Social and Political Thought MA. He supervises doctoral and MPhil students interested in early modern politics, political economy and religion.

Student Consultation

Office Hour: Tuesdays 11.00-12.00

Whatmore, Richard (2013) Luxury, commerce and the rise of political economy. In: The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the eighteenth century. Oxford handbooks in philosophy . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199549023 (In Press)

Haakonssen, Knud and Whatmore, Richard, eds. (2013) David Hume. International library of essays in the history of social and political thought . Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 9780754627166

Whatmore, Richard and Powell-McNutt, Jennifer (2013) Moving the eye of Europe: attempts to transfer the Genevan Academy to Ireland and to North America, 1782-1795. Historical Journal. ISSN 0018-246X (In Press)

Whatmore, Richard (2013) Thomas Paine. In: Constitutions and the classics: a collection of essays on selected authors from Fortescue to Dicey. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (In Press)

Whatmore, Richard (2012) Burke's political economy. In: The Cambridge companion to Edmund Burke. The Cambridge Companions to Literature . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 80-91. ISBN 9781107005594

Whatmore, Richard (2012) Burke on political economy. In: The Cambridge companion to Edmund Burke. Cambridge companions to literature . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 80-91. ISBN 9781107005594

Whatmore, Richard (2012) Against war and empire: Geneva, Britain and France in the eighteenth century. Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history . Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 9780300175578

Whatmore, Richard (2012) The watchmakers of Waterford. BBC History Magazine, 7. pp. 36-39. ISSN 1469-8552

Whatmore, Richard (2012) Geneva's long shadow. History Today, 62 (4). pp. 17-23. ISSN 0018-2753

Whatmore, Richard (2012) War, Trade and Empire: the Dilemmas of French Liberal Political Economy, 1780-1816. In: French Liberalism: From Montesquieu to the Present. Cambridge University Press, pp. 169-191. ISBN 9781107017436

Whatmore, Richard (2011) Shelburne and perpetual peace: small states, commerce and international relations within the Bowood Circle. In: An enlightenment statesman in Whig Britain: Lord Shelburne in context, 1737-1805. Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history (11). The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY, pp. 249-273. ISBN 9781843836308

Whatmore, Richard (2011) Enlightenment political philosophy. In: The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy. Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 296-318. ISBN 9780199238804

Goodwin, Kenneth, Poisson, Guillaume, Silvestrini, Gabriella and Whatmore, Richard, eds. (2011) Micheli du Crest : Discours en forme de lettres sur le gouvernement de Geneve (1735). Travaux sur la Suisse des Lumières . Slatkine, Geneva. ISBN 978-2051021685

Whatmore, Richard (2010) Vattel, Britain and peace in Europe. Grotiana, 31 (1). pp. 85-107. ISSN 0167-3831

Whatmore, Richard (2009) Geneva: An English enclave. A contextual introduction. In: Genève, lieu d'Angleterre, 1725-1814. Editions Slatkine, Geneva, pp. 11-35. ISBN 9782051020954

Whatmore, Richard (2009) The role of Britain in the political thought of the Genevan exiles of 1782. In: Genève, lieu d'Angleterre, 1725-1814. Slatkine, Geneva, pp. 255-272. ISBN 9782051020954

Whatmore, Richard (2009) Étienne Dumont et le Benthamisme: la démocratie dans les petits États. In: Bentham et la France: fortune et infortunes de l'utilitarisme. SVEC . Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, pp. 111-127. ISBN 9780729409803

Whatmore, Richard (2009) [Review] Monarchisms and republicanisms. European Journal of Political Theory, 8 (3). pp. 413-424. ISSN 1474-8851

Whatmore, Richard (2009) The French and North American revolutions in comparative perspective. In: Rethinking the Atlantic world: Europe and America in the age of democratic revolutions. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 219-238. ISBN 9780230206786

Whatmore, Richard (2009) 'Neither masters nor slaves': small states and empire in the long eighteenth century. In: Lineages of empire: the historical roots of British imperial thought. Proceedings of the British Academy, 155 . Oxford University Press for the British Academy, Oxford, pp. 53-81. ISBN 9780197264393

Whatmore, Richard (2009) Claviere, Etienne (1735-1793). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199562442

Whatmore, Richard (2009) D'Ivernois, Sir Francis. In: Oxford dictionary of national biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199562442

Whatmore, Richard (2009) Duroveray, Jacques-Antoine (1747-1814). In: Oxford dictionary of national biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199562442

Whatmore, Richard (2009) Una tigre che non ruggisce più: politica e economia a Ginevra nel XVIII secolo. In: Governare il mondo : l'economia come linguaggio della politica nell'Europa del Settecento. Turin University Press, Annali Feltrinelli, Turin, pp. 271-285. ISBN 9788807990649

Whatmore, Richard, Cossy, Valérie and Kapossy, Béla, eds. (2009) Genève, Lieu d'Angleterre, 1725-1814. Slatkine, Geneva. ISBN 978-2-05-102095-4

Whatmore, Richard (2009) Hume's Political Economy and Eighteenth-Century International Relations. Storia del Pensiero Economico, 6 (1). pp. 151-156.

Whatmore, Richard (2008) Treason and despotism: The impact of the French revolution upon Britain. History of European Ideas, 34 (4). pp. 583-586. ISSN 0191-6599

Whatmore, Richard (2008) [Review article] The origins of the French Revolution. History of Political Thought, 29 (4). pp. 717-729. ISSN 0143-781X

Whatmore, Richard and Kapossy, Béla, eds. (2008) Emer de Vattel: The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns, with Three Early Essays on the Origin and Nature of Natural Law and on Luxury (LF ed.) [1797]. Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics . Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, IN. ISBN 9780865974500

de Vattel, Emer (2008) The Law of Nations: Or Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the Conduct of Nations and Sovereigns. Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics . Liberty Fund, Indianapolis. ISBN 978-0-86597-499-9

Whatmore, Richard (2007) Etienne Dumont, the British constitution and the French Revolution. Historical Journal, 50 (1). pp. 23-47. ISSN 0018-246X

Whatmore, Richard (2007) French perspectives on British politics, 1688-1734. In: Les idées passent-elles la manche? Savoirs, représentations, pratiques. France-Angleterre, Xe-XXe siècles . Press de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, pp. 83-98. ISBN 9782840504849

Whatmore, Richard (2006) Rousseau and the representants: the politics of the Lettres ecrites de la montagne. Modern Intellectual History, 3 (3). pp. 385-413. ISSN 1479-2451

Whatmore, Richard and Young, Brian, eds. (2006) Palgrave Advances in Intellectual History. Palgrave Advances . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke; New York. ISBN 9781403939005

Whatmore, Richard (2006) Venturi and republicanism in eighteenth-century Geneva. In: Il repubblicanesimo moderno. L'idea di repubblica nella riflessione storica di Franco Venturi. Serie studi (31). Bibliopolis. ISBN 9788870884982

Whatmore, Richard (2005) [Review] Michael T Davis (2002) British radicalism in the 1790s. History of European Ideas, 31 (3). pp. 428-432. ISSN 0191-6599

Whatmore, Richard (2004) Dupont de Nemours et la politique révolutionnaire. Revue francaise d'histoire des idees politiques, 20 (3). pp. 335-351. ISSN 1266-7862

Whatmore, Richard (2004) Ancients versus moderns? Political economy in France from Rousseau to Constant. In: Gimon Conference on French Political Economy.

Whatmore, Richard (2004) The politics of political economy in France from Rousseau to Constant. In: Markets in historical contexts: ideas and politics in the modern world. Cambridge University Press, pp. 46-69. ISBN 9780521833554

Whatmore, Richard (2004) Democrats and republicans in restoration France. European Political Theory, 3 (1). pp. 37-51. ISSN 1474-8851

Whatmore, Richard (2002) Say et Clavière. In: Jean-Baptiste Say: nouveaux regards sur son oeuvre. Economica, pp. 714-734. ISBN 9782717845679

Whatmore, Richard (2002) Adam Smith's role in the French Revolution. Past and Present, 175 (1). pp. 65-89. ISSN 0967-8751

Whatmore, Richard (2001) Rousseau's readers [review]. History of European Ideas, 27 (3). pp. 323-331. ISSN 0191-6599

Whatmore, Richard (2000) Republicanism and the French Revolution: An intellectual history of Jean-Baptiste Say's political economy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199241156

Whatmore, Richard and Livesey, James (2000) Étienne Clavière, Jacques-Pierre Brissot et les fondations intellectuelles de la politique des girondins. Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise, 321 (3). pp. 1-26. ISSN 0003-4436

Collini, Stefan, Whatmore, Richard and Young, Brian, eds. (2000) History, Religion, and Culture: Essays in British Intellectual History, 1750-1950. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0521626392

Collini, Stefan, Whatmore, Richard and Young, Brian, eds. (2000) Economy, Polity, and Society: Essays in British Intellectual History, 1750-1950. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-63978-1

Whatmore, Richard (1999) Good books and bad morals: Jean-Baptiste Say's assessment of the French Revolution. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 378. pp. 303-318. ISSN 0435-2866

Whatmore, Richard (1998) The Weber Thesis: unproven yet unrefuted. In: Historical controversies and historians. Routledge, pp. 95-108. ISBN 9781857287400

Whatmore, Richard (1998) Everybody's business: Jean-Baptiste Say's general fact conception of political economy. Journal of the History of Political Economy, 30 (3). pp. 451-468. ISSN 0018-2702

Whatmore, Richard (1996) Commerce, constitutions, and the manners of a nation: Etienn Clavière's revolutionary political economy, 1788-1793. History of European Ideas, 22 (5-6). pp. 351-368. ISSN 0191-6599

Whatmore, Richard (1996) From constitution-building to the reformation of manners: three theories of modern citizenship in France, 1763-1793. In: Contemporary political studies 1996: volume 2: proceedings of the Political Studies Association conference. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1234-1242. ISBN 9780952315063