Anthony Pagden

Anthony Pagden teaches at UCLA. His most recent books are La ilustración y sus enemigos and, as editor, The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union.

In the LRB Archive:

• Best at Imitation: Spain v. England · 2 November 2006

  • Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J.H. Elliott

• C is for Colonies: a New History of Empire · 11 May 2006

  • Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff

• Great Expectations of Themselves: Was there a Spanish Empire? · 17 April 2003

  • Spain’s Road to Empire: The Making of a World 1492-1763 by Henry Kamen

• Oak in a Flowerpot: When Britons were slaves · 14 November 2002

  • Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 by Linda Colley

• Basismo · 13 June 1991

  • The Cambridge History of Latin America. Vol. VII: 1930 to the Present edited by Leslie Bethell
  • Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America by John King
  • Democracy and Development in Latin America: Economics, Politics and Religion in the Post-war Period by David Lehmann

• Social Poetry · 15 October 1987

  • Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times by Krishan Kumar
  • Lectures on Ideology and Utopia by Paul Ricoeur, edited by George Taylor
  • Visions of Harmony: A Study in 19th-Century Millenarianism by Anne Taylor

• It’s as if he’d never existed · 18 July 1985

  • The Transformation of Spain: From Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy by David Gilmour

• To kill a cat · 21 February 1985

  • Settecento Riformatore. Vol. IV: La Caduta dell’Antico Regime 1776-1789 Part One: I Grandi Staii dell’Occidente, Part Two: II Patriotismo Repubblicano e gli Imperi dell’Est by Franco Venturi
  • The Great Cat Massacre, and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton
  • Rousseau, Dreamer of Democracy by James Miller

• Calvi Calvino · 19 July 1984

  • In God’s Name by David Yallop

• Being a benandante · 2 February 1984

  • The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi

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