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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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Framing Corruption: The Discourse in Operation Lava Jato and the Judicial Activism in Brazil
- 04 February 2026,
- For years, Operation Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash) was the “spectacle” of Latin American politics. From 2014 to 2021, the world watched as a group...
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From Mycenaean Frescoes to Hellenistic Sculpture: Women’s Research in the Early Years of the ABSA
- 06 January 2026,
- The first volume of the Annual of the British School at Athens was published in 1895, almost a decade after the foundation of the School in 1886.…
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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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