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A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline.
- Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practiced
- Presents an in-depth survey of recent research and practice of intellectual history
- Written in a clear and accessible manner, designed for an international audience
- Surveys the various methodologies that have arisen and the main historiographical debates that concern intellectual historians
- Pays special attention to contemporary controversies, providing readers with the most current overview of the field
- Demonstrates the ways in which intellectual historians have contributed to the history of science and medicine, literary studies, art history and the history of political thought
Named Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 by Choice Magazine, a publication of the American Library Association
A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline.
Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practiced
Presents an in-dept...
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Richard Whatmore is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of Republicanism and the French Revolution (2000) and Against War and Empire (2012).
Brian Young is University Lecturer and Charles Stuart Student and Tutor in Modern History at Christ Church, University of Oxford. He is the author of Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England (1998) and The Victorian Eighteenth Century (2007).
Richard Whatmore is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of Republicanism and the French Revolution (2000) and Against War and Empire (2012).
Brian Young is University Lecturer and Charles S...
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