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Global Intellectual History

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Publishing on the history of ideas in global contexts, based @standrewsiih.bsky.social, printed @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Chief Editor, @rosariolopez.bsky.social; Reviews Editor, @tomaashby.bsky.social.

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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder
Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I am delighted that an issue I edited on @chloeireton.bsky.social's "Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic" is now online at GIH. Reading this pioneering work and editing these thoughtful papers was valuable, revelatory, and provoking www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgi...
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Now out! We've heard of Pan-Asianism, but what about Pan-Farmerism? In this article, Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (University of Oxford) proposes a “transwar nonstate approach” to uncover alternative global intellectual histories. Read the open-access article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Now online! @sylvana-tomaselli.bsky.social (@camhistory.bsky.social) reviews "Tocqueville" by Françoise Mélonio www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Now online! Valentina Altopiedi (Università di Torino) reviews "A Republic of Sympathy: Sophie de Grouchy's Politics and Philosophy, 1785–1815" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2024) by Kathleen McCrudden Illert www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Now online! In "Sovereignty, Circulation, and Argument in a Polycentric Buddhist World", Bhadragee Hewage (Oxford) reviews "Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties Across the Indian Ocean: The Pali Arena, 1200–1550" (U of Hawai'i, 2024) by Anne M. Blackburn www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Now online! Brian Smith (Nazarbayev University) reviews "The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025) by John Samuel Harpham www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Out! Ryu Aerim (Kyushu), "Reception, Translation, and Republicanism: Nakae Chōmin in Global Intellectual History", a review article, "Nakae Chômin, la mise en politique d'une philosophie rousseauiste au Japon" by E. Dufourmont (@classiquesgarnier.bsky.social 2024) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Now online! A book forum collection on "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Tauris & Co, 2025) by @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social. In time the forum will emerge as a print issue - do see her thread on the contributions below ⤵️
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Published! "[My work has been] in dialogue with two powerful minds, Quentin Skinner and István Hont... Over those six decades, I have made two discoveries that I still think really matter". Read the autobiographical reflections of John Dunn here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Paul Babinski @paulbabinski.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I was very happy to be part of this special issue on Julia's wonderful book, which I used as an opportunity to reflect on the broader history of Persian literature in Europe and the limits of viewing translation and literary history through a national lens.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Now online! Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social (Fondazione 1563) reviews "Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie" (@editionspayot.bsky.social, 2025) by Sabine Dullin www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Now online! A book forum collection on "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Tauris & Co, 2025) by @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social. In time the forum will emerge as a print issue - do see her thread on the contributions below ⤵️
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Now online and open access! An autobiographical essay by John Dunn (Cambridge) entitled "The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A photo of Dunn from 1966An image of the first page of Dunn's article available via the link
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
More review sections! Nice to be able to follow up on my book launch talk with a write-up for @global-ih.bsky.social — all thanks to Eddie Hughes who put this together.
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Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It was so intellectually rewarding to work with @global-ih.bsky.social on a special section on my book! The essays by @paulbabinski.bsky.social and @drjoeford.bsky.social extended the reflection temporally, while @saraharens.bsky.social and Richard Hibbitt made me reflect on my critical method.
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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
For @global-ih.bsky.social I reviewed Sabine Dullin's new book on the history of Russian despotism. I argue that she offers a valuable insight into the dynamics that produced the latest bout of Russian imperialism in Ukraine, but that we have to apply some of the same lessons to the West as well:
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Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Political theorists and liberal states have reified “democracy” into a platitude, even as it breeds cynicism in the face of deepening inequality and ecological crisis. Our article of the week explores whether democracy can be saved. By John Dunn in @global-ih.bsky.social buff.ly/kfEwHCP
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"It is too late to ask who will educate the educators. At this point we must educate ourselves together and heed the lessons of that education or we must and will die - not just each of us one by one, as we were always fated to do, but soon enough all of us and for ever"
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Now out in OA: "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?" by John Dunn (@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social): "[It] will be a heroic challenge... The stakes in meeting it are the possibility of democracy itself, a citizenry that has recovered the capacity to keep itself free" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Nineteenth-century painting by Philipp Foltz depicting the Athenian politician Pericles delivering his famous funeral oration in front of the Assembly.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Now online! Johan Hjelte (Gothenburg) reviews "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" by @jelenasubotic.bsky.social (@academic.oup.com, 2025) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We were very happy to facilitate this forum on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" by Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social. In due course, the collection will emerge as a print special issue. Huge thanks to all the contributors!
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social organsied a Special Issue on Erased, including a reply. I'm so grateful to Helen M. Kinsella, Joseph MacKay, Christine Sylvester, Immi Tallgren, and Tarak Barkawi for their commentaries. Links to each below...
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Online! Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) reviews "Martinů and His World" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025), edited by Aleš Březina and Michael Beckerman, a collection of essays and documents illuminating the work of Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The cover of the book that features a photo of Martinu sitting beside a piano in suit and tie with a cigarette
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Or Rosenboim @orrosenboim.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
What is planetary politics? My short essay is now published in Global Perspectives, in a really interesting forum. @ucpress doi.org/10.1525/gp.2...
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What Is “Planetary” Politics?
Is “planetary” a useful concept for political thought? What is the historical trajectory of this idea? The essay reflects on recent literature on planetary and global thinking to consider the challeng...
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
1/6 Across 2025 we have posted highlights to celebrate our approaching 10th anniversary. For our final one we spoke to @saramarzagora.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social), author of "Refashioning the Ethiopian Monarchy in the Twentieth Century" (2022; online 2020). Here are her thoughts:
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social
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Anton Jansson @antnlj.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
My review article on R Bourke’s and Q Skinner’s anthology ”History in the Humanities and Social Sciences” is included in the latest issue of @global-ih.bsky.social. Open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Frank Ejby Poulsen, PhD @fepoulsen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Many thanks to the editor @tomaashby.bsky.social and to the reviewer Laura André Lombard! It’s truly heartwarming to see years of work get noticed and read. Now, more than ever before, we live in dangerous times in great need of cosmopolitan republicanism.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
1/5 For our monthly highlight in November, approaching our 10th anniversary next year, we spoke with Taushif Kara (Cambridge, now @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) author of “Provincializing Mecca? (1924–1969)”, published in 2022 (online 2021). Here is what he had to say about this work:
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Now online! Laura André Lombard (Université Panthéon Assas) reviews "The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots: A Proponent of Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2023) by @fepoulsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Now online: Eric Loefflad (University of Kent) reviews "Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought (@edinburghup.bsky.social, 2024) by @carolineashcroft.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
1/9 Our latest print issue, a special issue on "Wandering Ideas: Circulations of Radical Social Thought in the Long Nineteenth Century" guest edited by @pkuligowski.bsky.social from papers presented at the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2022. The introduction: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Now online: Eric Loefflad (University of Kent) reviews "Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought (@edinburghup.bsky.social, 2024) by @carolineashcroft.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Now online! Giulio Talini (Università Bocconi) reviews "Science and Political Economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805" (@oxunienl.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social, 2024) by Lavinia Maddaluno www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Now online! Giulio Talini (Università Bocconi) reviews "Science and Political Economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805" (@oxunienl.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social, 2024) by Lavinia Maddaluno www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
1/5 Another archive highlight for our impending 10th anniversary - Q. Edward Wang (@rowanuniversity.bsky.social) reflects on his "World History on a Par with Chinese History? China's Search for World Power in Three Stages", published in 2022 (online 2020). This is what he had to say:
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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Looks outstanding - see the thread for more on the forum entries.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
1/8 An overview of a recent print issue, a forum on "Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) eds. @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - the forum was guest ed by @rosariolopez.bsky.social
A black and white photo of a woman (Merze Tate) on a bike outside the Radcliffe Camera on Oxford
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
1/6 Another highlight for our 10th anniversary. @brucealexb.bsky.social (Griffith University) who wrote "Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War, and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment" with us in 2022 (print 2023). We asked him about this work and its future. His response:
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
@edjonesc.bsky.social (@uneduniv.bsky.social) offers a review article on the work of Javier Fernández Sebastián, past & recent, "The Bilbao School of Intellectual History: Origins and Futures of the Largest Global Network of Conceptual Historians (Iberconceptos)" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
1/5 In case you missed our last highlight! Timo Pankakoski (@utu.fi / @helsinki.fi) contributed “Globalizing the political: German radical conservatives on the structural transformation of the global order” to our journal back in 2019 (currently open access). We asked him about this research today.
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We could not be happier and more grateful to @global-ih.bsky.social and to @hernandez-sau.bsky.social !
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Out now! @joseaguilar1992.bsky.social (@czechacademy.bsky.social) analyses "The Anticolonial Moment and the Global Influence of the Leipzig School: A Sociology of Cold War Intellectual History" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
6/8 Now for the regular book reviews: @ebrandom.bsky.social (@kstate.bsky.social) reviews "Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution" (@uncpress.bsky.social, 2023) by Marlene L. Daut www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
1/9 Reminder, we do medieval history! "Violence and Order: Past and Present", a SI edited by Warren C. Brown (Caltech‬), @rorycox.bsky.social (St Andrews‬), & Jennifer Jahner (Caltech), explores medieval "meanings of and relationships between violence and order" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
1/5 Here is another highlight for our 10th anniversary. Timo Pankakoski (@utu.fi / @helsinki.fi) contributed “Globalizing the political: German radical conservatives on the structural transformation of the global order” to our journal back in 2019. We asked him about this research today.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
1/8 Moving from our recent special issues, a look into our latest regular issue: First up, Carl Wilén (Lund) analyses recent trends in the literature of the Haitian Revolution in "Rethinking the Haitian Turn – Beyond the Universality Paradigm and Its Enemies" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An image of a painting: "Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot" (4 - march 24, 1802). Original illustration by Auguste Raffet, engraving by Hébert.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Now online! @ployjaip.bsky.social (Chiang Mai University & @sussex.ac.uk) reviews "Liberty as Independence: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025) by Quentin Skinner www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The cover of the book, featuring Nanine Vallain's 'La Liberté'
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Out! @jrilla.bsky.social (@ehess.fr & @ucl.ac.uk) argues that personification in "Facundo" (1845) by Domingo Sarmiento (later President of Argentina) "served to render a new political entity, the caudillo state, intelligible and to galvanise opposition against it" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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