Richard Whatmore is a professor of modern history and codirector of the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Republicanism and the French Revolution; Against War and Empire; What is Intellectual History?; and Terrorists, Anarchists and Republicans.
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Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to have... SEE MORE