David A. Bell

David A. Bell, author of The First Total War (Houghton Mifflin), is
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins.

History May 27, 2015

Enlightened. Elitist. Undemocratic.

Has the EU followed a path first blazed by Napoleon?

David A. Bell
Biography November 22, 2006

The Collaborator

The Unfree French looks at the German occupation of Vichy; Bad Faith is a grim biography of a French collaborator.

David A. Bell
History November 17, 2005

Profane Illuminations

New biographies of Rousseau and Voltaire help us appreciate how very fragile the eighteenth century's great movement of ideas was, and how remarkable it is that the Enlightenment not only survived but flourished.

David A. Bell