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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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Re-imagining Landscapes through Indigenous Literature
- 12 December 2025,
- “Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries” discusses the work of four 21st century poets who write bilingually...
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The Chilean Christians for Socialism Movement: Liberationist, Third Worldist, and Utopian
- 12 December 2025,
- Recent scholarship on the long 1960s has moved beyond the solely political dimensions of the era to recognize the religious impulses that shaped cultural and...
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Rural Scotland and the Kapp Putsch
- 04 December 2025,
- The Scottish Farm Servant is not a well-known journal. Established in 1913, amongst the wider maelstrom of the ‘Labour Unrest’, the journal served as the official...
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