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- Editors: Manu Goswami New York University, USA, Duncan Kelly University of Cambridge, UK, and Tracie M. Matysik University of Texas at Austin, USA
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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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“I think my enemy”: Carl Schmitt, sick of reading Arendt
- 21 July 2022,
- Carl Schmitt, “the famous professor of constitutional and international law who later became a Nazi” (as Hannah Arendt once put it), continues to shock and...
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Mr Hobbes goes to Paris
- 15 April 2022,
- My aim in this piece, however, is to suggest that there is much to be gained from turning to Hobbes’s immediate Parisian surroundings—for, France had its own...
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Planned Plunder? The British Museum and the 1868 Maqdala Expedition
- 17 January 2023,
- In 1871 Prime Minister William E. Gladstone made a statement to the House of Commons in which he regretted.
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How ITV launched modern research on primate facial expressions
- 17 January 2023,
- Although ITV fundamentally transformed British television, a combination of archival red tape and academic disdain for the BBC’s ‘low-brow’ competitor has left...
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A new agenda for women’s and gender history in Ireland
- 17 January 2023,
- The publication of this special issue, seeks to recognise the significant impact of the 1992 ‘Agenda’ on Irish scholarship
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