Global Intellectual History

Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War, and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment In his Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) voyaged across space and time. Drawing on ancient fable and contemporary colonial testimony, Ferguson sought to explain...

6/6 Read the original piece here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

5/6 [...] that the intellectual history of the Scottish Enlightenment is inseparable from the fraught global mobilities of colonisation, enslavement, and science, that shaped our understanding of humanity."

4/6 [...] Our current work examines the history of scientific instructions, which amplifies the central theme of my research and the 2023 article: [...]

The cover of the mentioned book. The image is a the shape of a man in historic clothes holding a skull.

3/6 [...] Through my collaboration with Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social (Uppsala University), that work culminated in the recent publication of our book, "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820" (Yale, 2025). [...]

2/6 "Travels in Space and Time", and the special issue it appears within, was the product of many years of research on the intellectual, colonial, and global history of Scotland's Enlightenment. [...]

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1/6 Another highlight for our 10th anniversary. @brucealexb.bsky.social (Griffith University) who wrote "Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War, and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment" with us in 2022 (print 2023). We asked him about this work and its future. His response:

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The Iberconceptos logo from its website

@edjonesc.bsky.social (@uneduniv.bsky.social) offers a review article on the work of Javier Fernández Sebastián, past & recent, "The Bilbao School of Intellectual History: Origins and Futures of the Largest Global Network of Conceptual Historians (Iberconceptos)" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Globalizing the political: German radical conservatives on the structural transformation of the global order This article addresses the international political theory of German radical conservatism in its transformations from Weimar nationalism to post-WW2 adoption of a global perspective. Analyzing the w...

5/5 Find the original piece here (currently open access!): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

4/5 "[...] if possible at all, necessitates knowing the prehistory of globalization theory and how we came think of globality like we do. I will soon launch a new project on what makes things “political” and hope to push these ideas further by means of constructive concept-formation".

3/5 "Eerily, the radical conservatives even mentioned global warming. The tension between the nationalistic roots of “the political” and the globality of the challenges we are facing remains as unsolved as in 1945, and solving the conundrum [...]

2/5 "I have written on German radical conservatives since, but this remains my main attempt to map their international thought. The text appears as increasingly topical amid the recent revival of nationalism, geopolitics, interest spheres, multipolarity, and conservative radicalism. [...]

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1/5 In case you missed our last highlight! Timo Pankakoski (@utu.fi / @helsinki.fi) contributed “Globalizing the political: German radical conservatives on the structural transformation of the global order” to our journal back in 2019 (currently open access). We asked him about this research today.

We could not be happier and more grateful to @global-ih.bsky.social and to @hernandez-sau.bsky.social !

Leipzig town centre in the 1980s

Out now! @joseaguilar1992.bsky.social (@czechacademy.bsky.social) analyses "The Anticolonial Moment and the Global Influence of the Leipzig School: A Sociology of Cold War Intellectual History" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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6/8 Now for the regular book reviews: @ebrandom.bsky.social (@kstate.bsky.social) reviews "Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution" (@uncpress.bsky.social, 2023) by Marlene L. Daut www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A contemporary (1334) depiction of knights battling at the Battle of Mühldorf in 1322

1/9 Reminder, we do medieval history! "Violence and Order: Past and Present", a SI edited by Warren C. Brown (Caltech‬), @rorycox.bsky.social (St Andrews‬), & Jennifer Jahner (Caltech), explores medieval "meanings of and relationships between violence and order" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Globalizing the political: German radical conservatives on the structural transformation of the global order This article addresses the international political theory of German radical conservatism in its transformations from Weimar nationalism to post-WW2 adoption of a global perspective. Analyzing the w...

5/5 Find the original piece here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

4/5 "[...] if possible at all, necessitates knowing the prehistory of globalization theory and how we came think of globality like we do. I will soon launch a new project on what makes things “political” and hope to push these ideas further by means of constructive concept-formation".

3/5 "Eerily, the radical conservatives even mentioned global warming. The tension between the nationalistic roots of “the political” and the globality of the challenges we are facing remains as unsolved as in 1945, and solving the conundrum [...]

2/5 "I have written on German radical conservatives since, but this remains my main attempt to map their international thought. The text appears as increasingly topical amid the recent revival of nationalism, geopolitics, interest spheres, multipolarity, and conservative radicalism. [...]

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1/5 Here is another highlight for our 10th anniversary. Timo Pankakoski (@utu.fi / @helsinki.fi) contributed “Globalizing the political: German radical conservatives on the structural transformation of the global order” to our journal back in 2019. We asked him about this research today.

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8/8 The issue ends with a review by Jessica Sequeira
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) of "Gabriela Mistral en México: La construcción de una intelectual (1922–1924)" (Libros UNAM/Universidad de Chile, 2022) by Carla Ulloa Inostroz www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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7/8 Nilkantha Pal (IISER Mohali) reviews "Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2023) by Sumit Chakrabarti
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6/8 Now for the regular book reviews: @ebrandom.bsky.social (@kstate.bsky.social) reviews "Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution" (@uncpress.bsky.social, 2023) by Marlene L. Daut www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The title and basic details of the book next to the image that is on the front cover.

5/8 Second, a review article by Sotirios-Ioannis Lekkas (Groningen) on "Contest of the Faculties" in "To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300-1870" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2021) by Martti Koskenniemi www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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4/8 Now, two review articles. First, Dongxian Jiang (@fordham.edu) on "Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2023) in "The Greek Classics in China: How Shadi Bartsch Misreads Chinese Intellectual History"
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The cover of The Last Utopia by Moyn

A cartoon of Moyn with the word 'c'mon' next to it (he uses this as his display picture), but with an added feature: a French beret.

3/8 In the next article, Tomas Wedin (Halmstad) writes "On the French Origins of Samuel Moyn's The Last Utopia", examining how French debates on rights [viewed as a politico-temporal issue], headed by François Furet, informed the work of @samuelmoyn.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An Indian stamp on an envelope from 1970 featuring Beethoven

2/8 "Beethoven Imagines India" by Harry Liebersohn (Illinois): "Beethoven’s diary entries reveal the composer’s strong interest in India.. What do they teach about cultural transmission in an age of revolution in Europe and British colonial expansion?"
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An image of a painting: "Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot" (4 - march 24, 1802). Original illustration by Auguste Raffet, engraving by Hébert.

1/8 Moving from our recent special issues, a look into our latest regular issue: First up, Carl Wilén (Lund) analyses recent trends in the literature of the Haitian Revolution in "Rethinking the Haitian Turn – Beyond the Universality Paradigm and Its Enemies" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The cover of the book, featuring Nanine Vallain's 'La Liberté'

Now online! @ployjaip.bsky.social (Chiang Mai University & @sussex.ac.uk) reviews "Liberty as Independence: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025) by Quentin Skinner www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....