Anthony Pagden has published widely on both Spanish and European history and has worked as a translator and as a publisher in addition to his many academic posts. He taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard before a professorship at Johns Hopkins University, and he is currently Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Two of his most recent publications, Worlds at War: The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East and West (2008) and The Enlightenment: and Why It Still Matters (2013), were also published by Oxford University Press.
[A] bold new book ... Readers of Pagden's earlier books will recognise in The Pursuit of Europe the characteristic grand sweeps, sparkling prose and mission to use the past to shed light on the present. * , Literary Review * Pagden is surely the perfect man to delve into the complex roots of the European idea...[this is a] wonderfully wide-ranging study. * Giles MacDonogh, writer and historian * [A] provocative book well worth reading. * Peter McPhee, Australian Book Review *