Prof Richard Whatmore

Bishop Wardlaw Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2884

Email

rw56@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

PhD supervision

• Emilie Aebischer
• Josiah Rotenberg
• Shea Smith
• Mian Xu

Selected publications

• Open access

  John Pocock and the jealousy of trade

  Whatmore, R. & Andersen, L. S., 7 May 2025, In: History of European Ideas. Online, p. 1-17

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Losing control of Tocqueville: J. P. Mayer and the genesis of Gallimard’s Œuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville

  Madill, P. & Whatmore, R., 2 Oct 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Modern Intellectual History. First View, p. 1-26

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The end of enlightenment: A reply to my critics

  Whatmore, R., 23 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: History of European Ideas. 51, 6, p. 1447-1456

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• James Mackintosh: the science of politics after the French Revolution

  Whatmore, R., 21 May 2023, Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish intellectual life, 1790-1914. Fyfe, A. & Kidd, C. C. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 70-88 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access

  Liberalism and republicanism, or wealth and virtue revisited

  Andersen, L. S. & Whatmore, R., 1 Mar 2023, In: Intellectual History Review. 33, 1, p. 131-160 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The end of Enlightenment: empire, commerce, crisis

  Whatmore, R., 7 Dec 2023, London: Allen Lane (Penguin-Randomhouse). 458 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Republicanism: an introduction, by Rachel Hammersley

  Whatmore, R., 27 Dec 2022, In: English Historical Review. 137, 589

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Rengger, history, and the future of international relations

  Whatmore, R., 11 Apr 2022, The civil condition in world politics: beyond tragedy and utopianism. Paipais, V. (ed.). Bristol: Bristol University Press, p. 211-228 18 p. (Bristol studies in international theory).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The history of political thought: a very short introduction

  Whatmore, R., 25 Nov 2021, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 137 p. (Very short introductions)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  History tells us that ideological ‘purity spirals’ rarely end well

  Whatmore, R. & Redfern, K., 1 Jul 2020, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

 

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