Modern Intellectual History

Now on FirstView: The Crown's prerogative? Duncan Wallace examines British legal opinion about immigration and sovereignty, 1833–1906

Now on FirstView: The Crown's prerogative? Duncan Wallace examines British legal opinion about immigration and sovereignty, 1833–1906

Now on FirstView: Losing Control of Tocqueville? Peter Madill and Richard Whatmore examine Jacob Peter Mayer and the genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville

New MIH Issue: “A Setting Where Things Can Happen”: Benjamin Serby analyzes the International Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation in London and the politics of knowledge production in the 1960s

Now on FirstView: Losing Control of Tocqueville? Peter Madill and Richard Whatmore examine Jacob Peter Mayer and the genesis of Gallimard’s Oeuvres complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville

Now on FirstView: An intellectual history of homeownership? Samuel Zipp analyzes “social property,” managed hierarchy, and the challenge of social selfhood in the early 20th-century U.S.

New MIH Issue: How has music shaped liberal thought? Sarah Collins analyzes naivety, liberalism, and Isaiah Berlin’s musical thinking

Now on FirstView: How can a regime be constituted to provide security and liberty without becoming despotic? Luke Foster analyzes Montesquieu’s case for honor in Publius and Adams during the early U.S. republic

Now on FirstView: An intellectual history of homeownership? Samuel Zipp analyzes “social property,” managed hierarchy, and the challenge of social selfhood in the early 20th-century U.S.

Now on FirstView: From markets to planning in promethean discourse? Niklas Olsen and Rasmus Skov Andersen situate the work of famous “skeptical environmentalist” Bjørn Lomborg in current climate and environmental debates bit.ly/486IPqq

From Postcolonial to Muslim Worlds? Xiaoyue Yasin Li examines the egalitarian ideas and practices of Gamal al-Banna (1920–2013) during Egypt’s transition from postcolonial socialism to neoliberal Islamic revival

Now on FirstView: From markets to planning in promethean discourse? Niklas Olsen and Rasmus Skov Andersen situate the work of famous “skeptical environmentalist” Bjørn Lomborg in current climate and environmental debates bit.ly/486IPqq

New MIH Issue: Thinking metaphorically? Jason Ferrell analyzes metaphor as method in the writings of Isaiah Berlin’s to demonstrate the moral agency associated with value pluralism

From Postcolonial to Muslim Worlds? Xiaoyue Yasin Li examines the egalitarian ideas and practices of Gamal al-Banna (1920–2013) during Egypt’s transition from postcolonial socialism to neoliberal Islamic revival

Now on FirstView: Vicarious Sovereignty? Taimur Reza analyzes the place of extraterritorial Turkey in the vision of Bengali Muslims at the turn of the twentieth century (1890–1917)

New MIH Issue: Reading the history of money? Carl Wennerlind analyzes the political and ideological theorization of money in his review essay of Stefan Eich’s The Currency of Politics and George Caffentzis’ Civilizing Money

From MIH Archives: Of savagery and civil society? Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social ‪examines the thought of French anthropologist Pierre Clastres and situates his once-famous depiction of savage politics as a premonitory rejection of the state at the crossroads of several traditions

Now on FirstView: Does economic nationalism have a philosophy? Stefan Link engages with this question in his review essay of Suesse Marvin’s The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism and Helleiner Eric’s The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History

Now on FirstView: Direct action as radical politics? Sean Scalmer analyzes the transnational histories of direct action and of nonviolence drawing attention to previously submerged debates of the radical interwar left

New MIH Issue: David Chan Smith @dasmith.bsky.social th.bsky.social‬ reconstructs the intellectual history of Milton Friedman's criticism of corporate social responsibility

Now on FirstView: Does economic nationalism have a philosophy? Stefan Link engages with this question in his review essay of Suesse Marvin’s The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism and Helleiner Eric’s The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History

From MIH Archives: Confucian capitalism? Jennifer M. Miller explores the influence of East Asia's economic growth on the evolution of American neoconservative thought and its celebration of traditional values in the 1970s and 1980s

Now on FirstView: Republican revivals? Anton Jäger reflects on the history of republicanism in his review essay of Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence and Bruno Leipold’s @brunoleipold.com Citizen Marx

An intellectual history of Anthropocene politics? António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social analyzes French geographer and imperialist André Siegfried’s environmental geopolitics, from the myth of French rural democracy to the collapse of French global power bit.ly/4n9f4Kp

From MIH Archives: Emma Planinc examines the foundations of Rousseau’s political languages: figurative, imagistic, and modeled on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

Now on FirstView: Direct action as radical politics? Sean Scalmer analyzes the transnational histories of direct action and of nonviolence drawing attention to previously submerged debates of the radical interwar left

Now on FirstView: Republican revivals? Anton Jäger reflects on the history of republicanism in his review essay of Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence and Bruno Leipold’s @brunoleipold.com Citizen Marx

From MIH Archives: Emma Planinc examines the foundations of Rousseau’s political languages: figurative, imagistic, and modeled on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

Now on FirstView: Vicarious Sovereignty? Taimur Reza analyzes the place of extraterritorial Turkey in the vision of Bengali Muslims at the turn of the twentieth century (1890–1917)

Now on FirstView: More Marx, Less Marxism? Ulrich Plass reviews the new Princeton edition of Marx’s Capital (Vol. 1) recently translated by Paul Reitte