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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As we approach our tenth anniversary we thought it was a good moment to update our "Aims and Scope" to better reflect how conversations in the field have developed over the last decade. The new version is now live, read it here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgi...
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For those who could not join us in Tokyo, there is now a recording available of John Dunn's Sakurada-kai Lecture, "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?" at Keio. The print version is forthcoming @global-ih.bsky.social; I am just handling final edits. Here is the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMPr...
John Dunn: Can Democracy be Rehabilitated? (Lecture Part) - Sakuradakai Lecture at Keio University
YouTube video by 一般財団法人 櫻田會 -Sakuradakai Foundation-
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February 3, 2026 at 9:29 AM
For those who could not join us in Tokyo, there is now a recording available of John Dunn's Sakurada-kai Lecture, "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?" at Keio. The print version is forthcoming @global-ih.bsky.social; I am just handling final edits. Here is the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMPr...
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!
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...
February 3, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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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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...
January 19, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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...
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....
January 19, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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....
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What is planetary politics? My short essay is now published in Global Perspectives, in a really interesting forum.
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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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November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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...
@ucpress
doi.org/10.1525/gp.2...
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....
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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December 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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....
5/6 This work was a cornerstone in the development of my forthcoming monograph on early twentieth-century Ethiopian political thought. [...]
December 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
5/6 This work was a cornerstone in the development of my forthcoming monograph on early twentieth-century Ethiopian political thought. [...]
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. [...]
December 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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. [...]
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. [...]
December 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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. [...]
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. [...]
December 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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. [...]
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:
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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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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
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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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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!
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November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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.
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....
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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.
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:
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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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November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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. [...]
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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. [...]
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. [...]
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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. [...]
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." [...]
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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." [...]
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:
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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:
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....
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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....
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....
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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....
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....
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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....
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....
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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....
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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....
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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....
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....
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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....