RICHARD WHATMORE is Reader in Intellectual History and Head of History Department at the University of Sussex, UK. His previous publications have centred on the political and economic thought of the late eighteenth century, and particularly the period of the French Revolution, and include Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say's Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2000) and I> Economy, Polity, and Society: Essays in British Intellectual History, 1750-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), edited with Stefan Collini and Brian Y

• Introduction; B.Young Intellectual History in English Academic Life: Reflections on a Revolution; J.W.Burrow Intellectual History in Britain; B.Young Literary and Intellectual History; A.Williams Intellectual History and the History of Art; L.Hartley Intellectual History and the Middle Ages; M.Bose Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought: R.Whatmore Intellectual History and the History of Science; J.Livesey Medicine, Science and Intellectual History; D.Madden Intellectual, Social and Cultural History: Ideas in Context; B.Cowan Feminism and Intellectual History; R.Foxley The Politics of Intellectual History in Twentieth Century Europe; D.Kelly