Richard Whatmore

Richard Whatmore (born January 19, 1968) is a professor of modern history at the University of St Andrews. His research topics includes intellectual history.

He is the editor-in-chief of History of European Ideas.

His books include:

  • 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)