Specialist courses
In addition to taking the core course, students select from a menu of specialist options.
Below is a list of courses that will be running in 2018/19:
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Method and Practice in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History – Professor Georgios Varouxakis
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Early Modern Theories of State – Professor Quentin Skinner
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Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries – Professor Georgios Varouxakis
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In the Shadow of the French Revolution: Political Thought 1789-1890 –Professor Gareth Stedman Jones
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The Modern State in Transatlantic Political Thought, 1880-1960 – Dr Mira Siegelberg
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Liberty, Reason, and The State: British Moral and Political Thought in Early-Modernity – Dr Hannah Dawson
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Nations, States and Empires in Transnational Perspectives – Professor Axel Körner
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Enlightenment Histories: History and Time in 18th Century Thought and Culture – Dr Alexander Wragge-Morley
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Latin America in Global Intellectual History – Professor Nicola Miller
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Crisis and Future in 19th Century European Thought – Professor Axel Körner
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Propaganda and Ideology in Ancient Rome* – Dr Valentina Arena
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The Invention of the Question: A History of European Thinking, 1100-1400** – TBC
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Thinking Against Empire – Professor Nicola Miller
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Political Thought in Renaissance Europe – Dr Angus Gowland
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Religion and the Age of Enlightenment: Conflict, Compromise or Cooperation? – Dr Robin Mills
Courses that have run in previous years:
The Public Sphere in Britain, 1476-1800
- Jason Peacey (UCL)
Theories of Empire: from Enlightenment to Liberalism
Selfhood, Sensibility and the Politics of Difference in the European Enlightenment
- Adam Sutcliffe (KCL)
Enlightenment and Revolution: Political Ideas in the British Isles, 1688-1800
- Ian McBride (KCL)
Signs, Mind, and Society: Early Modern Theories of Language
- Avi Lifschitz (UCL)
Visions of Capitalism
- Jeremy Jennings (KCL)
Crisis and Future in Nineteenth-Century European Thought
- Axel Körner (UCL)
Political Thought in Renaissance Europe
- Angus Gowland (UCL)
The Invention of the Question: a History of European Thinking, 1100-1400
Adam Smith and the State
- Julian Hoppit (UCL)