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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 (and posts) @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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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
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
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
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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
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....
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 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....
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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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....
October 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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....
October 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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:
October 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Looks outstanding - see the thread for more on the forum entries.
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
October 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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
October 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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:
October 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
@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....
September 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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.
September 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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We could not be happier and more grateful to @global-ih.bsky.social and to @hernandez-sau.bsky.social !
@hernandez-sau.bsky.social (CHAM – Universidade Nova de Lisboa) reviews "Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders" (Palgrave, 2024) edited by @mboluferp.bsky.social, Laura Guinot-Ferri, & Carolina Blutrach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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....
September 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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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....
August 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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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....
August 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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.
August 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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....
August 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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....
August 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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....
August 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Happy to see my early work on Kropotkin featured in the 10th anniversary of Global Intellectual History.

GIH is a fantastic journal, with truly international reflections on so many traveling ideas across our shared history. I always read it with pleasure and recommend it to colleagues!
1/6 For our latest highlight for our upcoming 10th anniversary, we return to the work of @antoniofdo.bsky.social (‪@rug.nl), author of "Kropotkin's commune and the politics of history", published @global-ih.bsky.social in 2018. We asked him about this research today. Here is what he had to say:
August 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Our special issue on an entirely uncontested concept: genocide www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgih20/1...
August 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Thanks to @rosariolopez.bsky.social for organising this forum on The Problems of Genocide—and to the commentators.
1/8 A look into another special issue, a book forum on "The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2021) by @dirkmoses.bsky.social & his reply, guest edited by @rosariolopez.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgih20/1...
August 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM