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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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From Brexit to Environmental Destruction: Understanding Modern Britain with James Vernon
- 29 January 2025,
- What inspired you to write a book on the history of Modern Britain? There were two motivations. I was interested in rescuing national histories from the nativism of the right. Of course, in Britain that virulent type of nationalism swept the country with Brexit, but across the world authoritarian populists have also evoked nativist histories that they promise will make their country great again....
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Making Trust in Early Modern London
- 07 January 2025,
- In the bustling streets of medieval and early modern London, trust was a precious commodity, just as it is today. But who did Londoner’s choose to trust?…...
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Policing and pension reform in nineteenth-century London
- 06 January 2025,
- In the late nineteenth century, at the same as large corporations began to emerge as central features of industrial capitalism, parallel developments were taking...
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