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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 3d

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

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...

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 3d

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."

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 3d

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). [...]

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

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 3d

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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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 3d

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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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Sep 5

@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....

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Sep 3

5/5 Find the original piece here (currently open access!): 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...

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Sep 3

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".

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Sep 3

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 [...]

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 9

@hernandez-sau.bsky.social (CHAM – Universidade Nova de Lisboa) reviews "Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders" (Palgrave, 2024) edited by @mboluferp.bsky.social, Laura Guinot-Ferri, & Carolina Blutrach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The cover of the book. An image on the cover is a woman looking through a looking glass.

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Sep 1

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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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 14

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....

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 10

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....

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

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 20

5/5 Find the original piece here: 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...

www.tandfonline.com

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 20

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".

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 20

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 [...]

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 14

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....

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 14

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....

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

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