| Post: | Professor of Intellectual History & the History of Political Thought |
| Location: | Arts A A164 |
| Email: | R.Whatmore@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8880 |
| UK: | (01273) 678880 |
| International: | +44 1273 678880 |
Biography
Biography
Richard Whatmore was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Harvard, and holds a doctorate from the former. He is Acting Director of the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History, a Fellow of Royal Historical Society, editor of the Elsevier journal History of European Ideas, and has taught at the University of Sussex since 1993. He has just completed research leave thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and in 2008-2009 is on partial leave because of a British Academy Research Development Award.
Research
Whatmore works on French, British and Swiss intellectual history during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Teaching
At undergraduate level Whatmore teaches courses on Enlightenment thought, the French Revolutionary period, and the history of democracy (History Special Subject: Democracy and War). In 2009 he is teaching a 'Global Interactive Course' with Professor Paul Clemens at Rutgers that brings students from Rutgers and Sussex together to study 'Tom Paine in a Revolutionary Age'. At postgraduate level he teaches on the Intellectual History MA and supervises doctoral and MPhil students interested in early modern politics, political economy and religion. Supervisions include:
‘The Political Thought of the Cordeliers Club'
‘Polytheism in Benjamin Constant's De la Religion'
‘Bolingbroke's politics and the reform of the navy'
‘The political thought of David Williams'
‘Chevalier Michael Ramsay and Anglo-Catholic political thought'
‘James Mills' Commonplace Books and their intellectual context'
‘The reception of Thomas Paine's thought in Britain, 1796-1820'
Recent Research Grants
2007 British Academy Small Grant (£4000): The Genevans after Rousseau
2007-2008 Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Leave Scheme (henceforth AHRC) (£30,000): The Genevans after Rousseau
2008-2011 Leverhulme Trust Large Grant (£251,000): A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 (with Centre for Dissenting Studies, Queen Mary College London: Professor Isabel Rivers PI)
2008-2011 Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship (£102,000): Absolutism as political language in early modern European discourse on statecraft (with Cesare Cuttica)
2008-2011 AHRC, Collaborative Doctoral Award (£70,000): James Mill's Commonplace Books in their Intellectual Context (with The London Library)
2008-2010 British Academy Research Development Award (£110,000): Calvinism and enlightenment in the long eighteenth century (with Knud Haakonssen)
Publications
Books
Advances in Intellectual History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), xi + 239pp. edited with Brian Young
Emer de Vattel, The Law of Nations, or Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns (Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 2008), xxv + 865pp., edited with Béla Kapossy
Geneva: An English Enclave (Editions Slatkine: Travaux sur la Suisse des Lumières, 2009), x+355pp., edited with Valérie Cossy and Béla Kapossy
Micheli Du Crest's Discours sur le gouvernement de Genève (1735) (Editions Slatkine: Travaux sur la Suisse des Lumières), edited with Gabriella Silvestrini and Kenneth Goodwin, forthcoming 2010
Articles, chapters and essays
1. 'Commerce, constitutions, and the manners of a nation: Etienn Clavière's revolutionary political economy, 1788-1793', History of European Ideas, 22 (1996), 351-68
2. 'From Constitution-building to the Reformation of Manners: Three Theories of Modern Citizenship in France, 1763-1793', in I. Hampsher-Monk, ed., Contemporary Political Problems (Belfast, 1996), 1234-1242
3. 'The Weber Thesis: unproven yet unrefuted', in W. Lamont, ed., Historical Controversies (University College London Press, 1998), 95-108
4. ‘Republican Political Economy on the Eve of the French Revolution', working paper 34, Forum for Comparative Political Economy Studies (Exeter, 1998), 23 pp
5. 'Everybody's Business: Jean-Baptiste Say's General Fact conception of Political Economy', History of Political Economy, 30 (1998), 451-468
6. 'Jean-Baptiste Say's Republican Political Economy', History of Political Thought, 19 (1998), 439-456
7. 'Good books and bad morals': Jean-Baptiste Say's assessment of the French Revolution', Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 378 (1999), 303-18
8. ‘Les fondations intellectuelles de la politique des Girondins', Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, 75 (2000), no. 3, 1-26, with James Livesey
9. ‘L'Amitié de grands Etats est leur plus sur appui': the small state dilemma in Genevan political economy, 1762-1798,' Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte (Revue Suisse d'Histoire), 50 (2000), 353-72
10. 'A gigantic manliness: Thomas Paine's republicanism in the 1790s', in Collini, Whatmore, and Young, eds., Economy, Polity and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2000), 135-157
11. ‘Rousseau's Readers', History of European Ideas, 27/2 (2001), 317-331
12. ‘Introduction’, Hellmutt Pappe, ‘Sismondi, Constant, Tocqueville’, Storia del pensiero economica, 43 (2002), 55-77
13. ‘Adam Smith’s contribution to the French Revolution’, Past and Present, 175 (2002), 65-89
14. ‘Say et Clavière’, in Jean-Pierre Potier and André Tiran, eds., Jean-Baptiste Say: Nouveaux regards sur son œuvre (Economica, Paris, 2003), 714-34
15. ‘The Politics of Political Economy from Rousseau to Constant’, in M. Bevir and F. Trentman, eds., Markets in Historical Contexts. Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 46-69
16. Review essay: David McCallam’s Chamfort and the French Revolution. A study in form and ideology for H-FRANCE, February, 2004
(http://www3.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/whatmore.html)
17. Entries on Auguste Comte, Jean-Baptiste Say, Emmanuel Sieyès and J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi in G. Claeys (ed.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Thought, London, 2004
18. ‘Dupont de Nemours et la politique révolutionnaire’, Revue française d’histoire des idées politiques, 20 (2004), 334-349
19. ‘Democrats and Republicans in Restoration France’, European Political Theory, 3 (2004), 38-52
20. ‘British Radicalism in the 1790s’, History of European Ideas, 31 (2005), 428-432
21. ‘Ancients versus Moderns? Political Economy in France, 1762-1814’, Proceedings from the Gimon Conference on French Political Economy, 17-19 April 2004, Stamford Libraries website, July 2005
22. ‘Venturi and republicanism in eighteenth-century Geneva’, in M. Albertone, ed. Il repubblicanesimo moderno. L'idea di repubblica nella riflessione storica di Franco Venturi (Bibliopolis, Naples, 2006), 385-402
23. ‘Rousseau and the représentants: the politics of the Lettres écrites de la montagne’, Modern Intellectual History, 3 (2006), 1-29
24. ‘Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought’, in Whatmore and Young, eds., Advances in Intellectual History (Palgrave, London, 2006), 109-129
25. Review essay: Aurelian Craiutu, Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires, for H-FRANCE, January, 2006 (http://h-france.net/vol6reviews/whatmore2.html)
26. ‘Préface’ to Jean-Marc Rivier, Etienne Clavière, 1735-1793. Un révolutionnaire, ami des Noirs (Paris, 2006)
27. ‘French perspectives on British politics, 1688-1734’ in J.-P. Genet & F.-J. Ruggiu, eds. Les Idées passent-elles la Manche? (Press de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, 2007), 83-98
28. ‘Etienne Dumont, the British Constitution, and the French Revolution’, Historical Journal, 50/1 (2007), 23-47
29. ‘Emer de Vattel’s Mélanges de littérature, de morale et de politique (1760)’ History of European Ideas, 34/1 (2008), 77-103, with Béla Kapossy
30. ‘Commerce and Enlightenment’, Intellectual History Review, 18/2 (2008), 283-306, with Knud Haakonssen
31. ‘The origins of the French Revolution’, History of Political Thought, 29/4 (2008), 717-729
32. ‘Treason and Despotism: the impact of the French Revolution upon Britain’, History of European Ideas, 34/4 (2008), 583-586
33. ‘Geneva: An English Enclave. A Contextual Introduction’, in V. Cossie, B. Kapossy and R. Whatmore eds., Geneva: An English Enclave (Slatkine, Geneva, 2009), 1-27
34. ‘The Role of Britain in the Political Thought of the Genevan Exiles of 1782’, in V. Cossie, B. Kapossy and R. Whatmore eds., Geneva: An English Enclave (Slatkine, Geneva, 2009), 255-272
35. ‘‘Neither masters nor slaves’. Small states and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century’, Proceedings of the British Academy, ‘Lineages of Empire. The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought’, ed. D. Kelly (2009), 53-81
36. ‘The French and American Revolutions in Comparative Perspective’ in M. Albertone & A. De Francesco eds., Rethinking the Atlantic World. Europe and America in the Age of Democratic Revolutions (Palgrave, 2009), 219-238
37. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries on Etienne Clavière, Jacques-Antoine Duroveray, François D’Ivernois (1500 words each, 2009)
38. ‘Étienne Dumont et le Benthamisme: la démocratie dans les petits États’, in E. de Champs & J.-P. Cléro, eds. ‘Bentham et la France. Fortune et infortune de l’utilitarisme’, Studies of Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2009), 111-127
39. ‘Monarchisms and Republicanisms’, European Political Theory, 8/3 (2009), 413-424
40. ‘The Eighteenth-Century French Revolution’, Reviews in History, Institute of Historical Research, 2009
41. ‘Una tigre che non ruggisce più: politica e economia a Ginevra nel XVIII secolo’, in M. Albertone, ed. L’economia come linguaggio della politica nell’Europa del Settecento (Turin University Press, Annali Feltrinelli, 2009), 271-285.
42. 'Hume’s Political Economy and Eighteenth-Century International Relations’, Storia del pensiero economico, 6/1 (2009), 151-156