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Modern Intellectual History publishes scholarship in intellectual and cultural history from 1650 onwards. MIH concerns itself primarily with apprehending the contextual origins and receptions of texts in order to recover their historical meanings. But we understand ‘texts’ in the broadest sense, so as to encompass multiple forms of intellectual and cultural expression. These include, but are not limited to, political thought, philosophy, religion, literature, both the social sciences and the natural sciences, music, architecture, and the visual arts.
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Revising the history of early French social science
- 08 June 2023,
- Historians long thought the term science sociale was coined in 1789 by the revolutionary theorist Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès.
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Radical Democracy and/or Ordinary Anarchy?
- 06 June 2023,
- Journalist Colin Ward (1924-2010) believed anarchism was ordinary with its roots firmly in the small, everyday acts of improvised co-operation that made living...
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Author Q&A: Merry Wiesner-Hanks on A Concise History of the World 2nd ed.
- 12 May 2026,
- Read Merry Wiesner Hanks' Q&A on the new edition of A Concise History of the World, her social and cultural world history from the Pleistocene to Putin....
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The Secret Life of 1930s Australian Boardrooms: Why the “Managers” Weren’t Really in Charge
- 11 May 2026,
- In the classic story of modern capitalism, ownership and control separate as companies grow. Shareholders provide the capital, while professional managers run...
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Drawing the “Enemies” of Empire: Lebanese Migrants and the Boundaries of Frenchness in Postwar Senegal
- 08 May 2026,
- On the cover of a 1950s issue of Les Échos d’Afrique Noire, readers encountered a striking visual prophecy. A fakir—invoking a deeply racialized colonial imaginary—reveals...
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