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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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....
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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....
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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....
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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....
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 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
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
8/8 This issue ends with a review, second, by @sandipan1992.bsky.social (Presidency University, Kolkata) of "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2023) by @drjehrlich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
7/8 Now for two book reviews, in print issue: First, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law – 1200 to 1700" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2024) by Gijs Kruijtzer is reviewed by @pooyan1983.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
6/8 Finally, the editors of the volume @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - conclude the collection with a response to the aforementioned review articles & some reflections on the future of the field www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
5/8 After a long analysis, Laura Sjoberg (@royalholloway.bsky.social) concludes her review: "Looking back the way that this volume does is an important way of looking forward for IR – for a potentially different IR that is less narrow and less exclusive" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
4/8 "IR offers a home to those working on the margins, innovative ideas", @lucianashworth.bsky.social (@memorialu.bsky.social) notes, citing Susan Strange (1923-98), & this "is a great step forward in developing and protecting the IR that [she] found so welcoming" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
3/8 "[They] have rescued countless female voices from oblivion", says Mona L. Siegel (@calstate.bsky.social) & "will no doubt spark untold numbers of future theses [...] as students’ curiosity is roused by the sparkling intellect and unique vision of these women" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
2/8 The woman in the photo above is Merze Tate (1905-1996), who features in the contribution by Barbara D. Savage. The first review article in the forum is entitled 'Nonappearance is not Evidence of Absence' by Geoffrey Field (New York) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 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
3/6 [...] Through my collaboration with Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social (Uppsala University), that work culminated in the recent publication of our book, "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820" (Yale, 2025). [...]
October 5, 2025 at 10:12 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