Richard Whatmore is professor of intellectual history and the history of political thought at the University of Sussex.
“Whatmore uncovers the considerable European intellectual impact of
a small group of eighteenth-century Genevan reformers, who called
themselves the Représentants. . . . In telling their story Whatmore
reveals how political Adam Smith’s political economy became in the
final decades of the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth
century.”—Philippe Steiner, Paris-Sorbonne University
*Philippe Steiner*
“The fate of small states in a world of competing commercial
hegemons is a contemporary quandary with Enlightenment roots.
Richard Whatmore's deeply researched, tightly written study shows
that a surprising number of those roots sprang from Geneva.
Scholars of political thought, international relations and the rise
and fall of empires in the late eighteenth century will all have to
take account of this masterful book.”—David Armitage, Harvard
University
*David Armitage*
“Whatmore expertly narrates the attempts of Genevan radicals to
transform European power politics and, in so doing, offers
fascinating insights into Rousseau’s Genevan and democratic
credentials, emphasizing his relative conservatism and heterodoxy
when compared to his Genevan friends and followers.”—Helena
Rosenblatt, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
*Helena Rosenblatt*
“Against War and Empire offers a distinguished contribution to the
history of modern political thought, rich in its erudition and
masterful in its insights. The central challenge facing the
celebrated advocates of liberty and reform Whatmore examines in
this book remains timely and urgent today: how to preserve the
freedom and welfare of small states in a political world dominated
by major powers with global reach and imperial ambitions.”—David
Lieberman, University of California, Berkeley
*David Lieberman*
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