Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark is the Joyce C. and Elizabeth Ann Hall Distinguished Professorship of British History Emeritus at the University of Kansas. He received his undergraduate degree at Downing College, Cambridge and prior to his move to Kansas in 1996 he taught at Peterhouse, Cambridge and All Souls College, Oxford.
Books in order of publication:
The Dynamics of Change: the Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems (Cambridge University Press, 1982).
English Society, 1688–1832: Ideology, Social Structure, and Political Practice During the Ancien Regime. Cambridge University Press. 1985.
Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press. 1986. .
Editor, The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, 1742–1763 (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Editor, Ideas and Politics in Modern Britain (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990).
The Language of Liberty, 1660–1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World. Cambridge University Press. 1994a
Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion, and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 1994b).
Co-editor, Samuel Johnson in Historical Context, co-editor: Howard Erskine-Hill (New York: Palgrave, 2002).
Editor, Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France: a Critical Edition (Stanford University Press, 2001).
Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History (London: Atlantic Books, 2003).
The Politics of Samuel Johnson, co-editor: Howard Erskine-Hill (New York: Palgrave, 2012).
The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson, co-editor: Howard Erskine-Hill (New York: Palgrave, 2012).
From Restoration to Reform: The British Isles 1660–1832 (London: Vintage, 2014).
Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018).
The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History. Oxford University Press. 2024.
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