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- Editors: Brandon Byrd Vanderbilt University, USA, Duncan Kelly University of Cambridge, UK, Tracie M. Matysik University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Wesleyan University, 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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'Modern Intellectual History' Blogs

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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...
History blog

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Revising An Economic History of Europe for a Rapidly Changing World
- 05 August 2025,
- How we updated the classic textbook An Economic History of Europe to reflect changes both in the world and in how we teach and learn economic history.

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A conversation with the historian of science Lorraine Daston
- 24 July 2025,
- Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science whose work spans a broad range of topics in the early modern and modern history of science.…

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Cuerpo, mestizaje y colonialidad: La alteridad de las mujeres trans en las muestras fotográficas Padre Patria y Vírgenes de la Puerta/
- 23 July 2025,
- The photographic series “Padre Patria” (2014) and “Vírgenes de la Puerta” (2014), by Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Andrew Mroczek, offer a visual narrative of...
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