The Enlightenment World

Political and Intellectual History of the Long Eighteenth Century

Series Editor: Michael T Davis
Series Co-Editors: David Armitage, Jack Fruchtman, Jr, Iain McCalman, Jon Mee and Paul Pickering
Advisory Editor: Hideo Tanaka

This series features monographs that take an innovative and challenging look at the political and intellectual history of the Enlightenment period.

The richness of the Enlightenment experience makes it a significant topic for study. It had a profound impact on nearly every aspect of life during the long eighteenth century and many of its values are familiar to modern society. Some of the key themes that this series embraces include the scientific revolution; philosophical origins and progress of the Enlightenment; high and popular culture; the political impact of the Enlightenment; and its comparative impact in a broad European context.

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Readership

Many scholars throughout the world are actively engaged in studying, researching, and teaching the Enlightenment period. The broad implications of the Enlightenment movement means that works published in the series will have a multi-disciplinary approach. Scholars in History, Political Studies, Political Science, Political Thought, English Literature, Religion, and Philosophy will find the works of interest.

Editorial board

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), Greater Britain: Essays in Atlantic History, 1516–1776 (2004) and The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007) and the editor or co-editor of eight other books, among them Bolingbroke: Political Writings (1997), The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (2nd edn, 2009) and The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c1760–1840 (2010).

Michael T Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He is editor of Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775–1848 (2000); London Corresponding Society (Pickering & Chatto, 2002); Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution (2005) (with Iain McCalman and Christina Parolin); Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform (2008) (with Paul A Pickering); and Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism in Europe, 1605 to the Future (2008) (with Brett Bowden).

Jack Fruchtman, Jr, is at the Department of Political Science, Towson University, where he teaches on constitutional law and legal theory. He has published widely, including The Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley (1983), Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature (1993) and Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends (2005). He has edited Helen Maria Williams’s eyewitness account of the French Revolution (1997) and served as associate editor for history, politics, and philosophy of Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837 (1997).

Iain McCalman is a specialist in British and European cultural history of the late Enlightenment period. He is author of Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London , 1795-1840 (1988); editor of An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832 (1999); author of The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro (2003); co-editor of The Enlightenment World (2004); and editor of Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution (2005) (with Michael T Davis and Christina Parolin). He has served as President of the Australian Academy of Humanities and Director of the Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, and is currently a Federation Fellow. He is based at the University of Sydney.

Jon Mee works primarily on literature, culture and politics in the 1780–1830 period. He is author of Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s; associate editor of An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776–1832 (1999); author of Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (2003); co-editor with Tone Brekke of Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (2009); and author of The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens (2010). Formerly Margaret Candfield Fellow in English at University College, Oxford, he is currently Professor of Romanticism Studies at the University of Warwick.

Paul A Pickering is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University. His publications include Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford (1995); The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League (2000) (with Alex Tyrrell); Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists (2003) (with Owen Ashton); Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain (with Alex Tyrrell) (2004); and Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform (2008) (with Michael T Davis).

Hideo Tanaka is at Kyoto University.

Published titles

Forthcoming titles

British Visions of America, 1775–1820: Republican Realities
Emma Vincent Macleod
(May 2013)
Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution
Russell M Lawson
(January 2011)
The Spirit of the Union: Popular Politics in Scotland
Gordon Pentland
(March 2011)

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