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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....

A photo of two sitting men in traditional Japanese attire

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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....

The cover of the book featuring a portrait of Tocqueville

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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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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....

An 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....

The cover of the book. An image of soldiers carrying paintings is visible in the bottom part of the cover.

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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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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

6/6 [...] Writing the article as part of a special issue spanning several countries pushed me to draw comparative connections between Ethiopia and other monarchies in Thailand and Iran." Read the original article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Refashioning the Ethiopian Monarchy in the Twentieth Century: An Intellectual History

This article traces the shift in the Ethiopian monarchical ideology from lineage as symbolic Christian filiation to dynasty as a political genealogy of sovereign power. From the end of the nineteen...

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

5/6 This work was a cornerstone in the development of my forthcoming monograph on early twentieth-century Ethiopian political thought. [...]

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

4/6 I was interested in delineating how this anticolonial move generated its own contradictions, rigidifying Ethiopia’s internal hierarchies and setting Ethiopia aside from other African countries. [...]

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

3/6 The notion of an unbroken dynastic continuity was used to strengthen Ethiopia’s claims to sovereignty in history writing, public architecture, and legal texts. [...]

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

2/6 "This article traced the strategies through which Ethiopian leaders and intellectuals defended Ethiopia’s precarious independence in the colonial world of the early twentieth century. [...]

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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

5/5 [...] Paradoxically, however, it shows how the minorities that were the victims of these ideas also contributed to them, complicating standard accounts and demanding new frameworks." Here is the original article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Provincializing Mecca? (1924–1969)

This article argues that in the moments leading up to decolonization, Indian Muslims living in East Africa sought to refuse their minority status through the excessive language of universal Islam. ...

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

4/5 [...] It argues that decolonisation was defined by an “immediate” relation to sovereignty that was threatened by the apparently mediating presence and function of minorities, who were often expelled or exiled in the early post-colonial period. [...]

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

3/5 [...] I have since developed these arguments into a monograph provisionally titled “Vanishing Mediators: A History of Decolonisation,” which narrates that tumultuous but conceptually fertile period from the vantage point of its ostensible victims. [...]

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

2/5 "That article and the special issue "Refusing Minority, Recasting Islam" was an attempt to think comparatively about how minorities remade Islam in the twentieth century, usually by recourse to universalist claims." [...]

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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....

The cover of the book, featuring a historic portrait of Cloots

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

9/9 The issue comes to close with a book review. K. Shaheen (Kannur University) reviews "The Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfiʿī Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Black Pepper Books / @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) by Mahmood Kooria www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The cover of the Black Pepper Books version

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

8/9 Boris Popivanov (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski) looks into the legacy of Dimitar Blagoev (1856–1924), a key founder of Bulgarian socialism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Detail from a painting that includes Blagoev

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

7/9 Following this, @lucaspoy.bsky.social (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) investigates "The Influence of Enrico Ferri in Late-Nineteenth Century Argentine Socialism" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Detail from a historic portrait photo of Ferri

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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....

The cover of the book, featuring a mushroom cloud

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

6/9 Banu Turnaoğlu (Sabancı Üniversitesi / University of Cambridge) writes on "Early Socialism and the Impact of the Paris Commune on the Ottoman Political Imagination in the Nineteenth Century" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A twentieth-century painting modeled on Liberty Leading the People with themes from Turkish politics

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

5/9 "Owen and the Engineers" - Claudia Roesch (@uni-konstanz.de) looks into "Cross-Fertilization between Engineering and Early Socialism in the Owenite Tradition" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Detail from a portrait painting of Robert Owen

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

4/9 Next up, Stanisław Knapowski (UAM Poznań) explores the phalanstère of Charles Fourier (1772-1837) in "The Social Palace as a Medium for the Transfer and Transformation of Ideas in Early Socialism" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

3/9 @pkuligowski.bsky.social (Polish Academy of Sciences|) offers "Discussing Pauperism in mid-Nineteenth Century Poland and Russia: A Study of Conceptual Transfers to the Imperial Heartland and Peripheries", focussing on Henryk Kamieński and Vladimir A. Milyutin www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

2/9 @ekwiecin.bsky.social (Polish Academy of Sciences) examines revolutionary Ukrainian ideas: "‘And There Will Be No Russian Tsar and No Polish Lord…’: The Ukrainian Populist Utopia of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius in a Transnational Perspective" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A postage stamp from 1992 with the portrait of Mykola Kostomarov

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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....

An artistic impression of part of a world map, a figure, film reels, other spherical objects, and a heart

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