Darrin McMahon

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Darrin M. McMahon (born 1965) is an American historian, author, public speaker, and currently a professor of history at Dartmouth College, where he is Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History. Prior to joining the Dartmouth Faculty, he was Ben Weider Professor and distinguished research professor at Florida State University. [1]

Trained as a historian of France, his first book Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity dealt with opposition within France to the Enlightenment legacy in the 18th and 19th centuries. [2] He is also the author of Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Books, 2006), [3] and Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Basic Books, 2013). [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Darrin McMahon". People. Dartmouth History Department. 16 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Reviews of Enemies of the Enlightenment: JSTOR   10.1086/380254; JSTOR   25479657; JSTOR   24452762; JSTOR   3790149; JSTOR   10.1086/532806; JSTOR   41916729; JSTOR   24427542; JSTOR   3595703; doi : 10.1016/j.orbis.2003.10.011; doi : 10.1080/03612759.2002.10526044; doi : 10.11588/fr.2005.2.62154
  3. ↑ Reviews of Happiness: A History: JSTOR   25096633; JSTOR   26061497; doi : 10.1017/S0360966900004199
  4. ↑ Reviews of Divine Fury: JSTOR   10.1086/682847; JSTOR   43696023; doi : 10.1111/hisn.12062_73
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