Colin Kidd

Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.

In the LRB Archive:

• Europe, what Europe?: J.G.A. Pocock · 6 November 2008

  • The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History by J.G.A. Pocock
  • Barbarism and Religion, Volume III: The First Decline and Fall by J.G.A. Pocock
  • Barbarism and Religion, Volume IV: Barbarians, Savages and Empires by J.G.A. Pocock

• The Calvinist International: Hugh Trevor-Roper · 22 May 2008

  • The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History by Hugh Trevor-Roper
  • Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne by Hugh Trevor-Roper

• Brown v. Salmond: The Scottish Elections · 26 April 2007

• A Matter of Caste: Alexis de Tocqueville · 22 March 2007

  • Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution by Hugh Brogan

• Pudding Time: Jacobites · 14 December 2006

  • 1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion by Daniel Szechi

• William Wallace, Unionist: the Idea of Devolution · 23 March 2006

  • State of the Union: Unionism and the Alternatives in the United Kingdom since 1707 by Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan

• Damnable Deficient: The American Revolution · 17 November 2005

  • 1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough

• ‘My God was bigger than his’: The Republicans · 4 November 2004

  • The Right Nation: Why America Is Different by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
  • Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann
  • Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image by David Greenberg
  • America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism by Anatol Lieven

• Hybridity: The Invention of Globalisation · 2 September 2004

  • Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons by C.A. Bayly

• Smut-Finder General: The Dark Side of American Liberalism · 25 September 2003

  • Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History by James Morone

• Endless Uncertainty on Adam Smith · 19 July 2001

  • Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment by Emma Rothschild

• Highway to Modernity on the British Enlightenment · 8 March 2001

  • Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World by Roy Porter

• Writing the History of Middle Earth on Edward Gibbon · 6 July 2000

  • Barbarism and Religion Vol 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-64 by J.G.A. Pocock
  • Barbarism and Religion Vol 2: Narratives of Civil Government by J.G.A. Pocock

• Clear Tartan Water writes about the election in Scotland · 27 May 1999

• Men in Aprons on Freemasonry · 7 May 1998

  • Who’s Afraid of Freemasons? The Phenomenon of Freemasonry by Alexander Piatigorsky

• Sing Tantarara · 30 October 1997

  • Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency by Stephen Knott
  • The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O’Brien
  • American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis
  • Slave Laws in Virginia by Philip Schwarz

• Bastard Gaelic Man · 14 November 1996

  • The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson edited by Vincenzo Merolle

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