Global Intellectual History

Published by Columbia University Press 2013

Global Intellectual History

Edited by: Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori

In the series Columbia Studies in International and Global History

https://doi.org/10.7312/moyn16048

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About this book

Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global intellectual history," featuring essays by leading scholars on various approaches that are taking shape across the discipline.

The contributors to Global Intellectual History explore the different ways in which one can think about the production, dissemination, and circulation of "global" ideas and ask whether global intellectual history can indeed produce legitimate narratives. They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit within current conceptions of global frames and processes of globalization and proto-globalization, and they distinguish between ideas of the global and those of the transnational, identifying what each contributes to intellectual history. A crucial guide, this collection sets conceptual coordinates for readers eager to map an emerging area of study.

Author / Editor information

Samuel Moyn is a professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is the editor of Pierre Rosanvallon's Democracy Past and Future and the author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History.

Andrew Sartori is associate professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital and the coeditor of From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition.

Reviews

David Armitage, Harvard University, author of Foundations of Modern International Thought:

As intellectual history takes a global turn, the field urgently needs inspiring examples and salutary skepticism. Global Intellectual History provides both in equal measure through multiple models drawn from exceptionally broad expanses of both time and space. The result is a milestone, a collection of the first importance for global historians and intellectual historians alike.

Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge, author of The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought:

Conceptually and substantively sophisticated, this volume of essays will be widely welcomed by a variety of historians. The field is a burgeoning one, but there is little to shape it collectively at present. This volume is among the first to focus on the comparative merits of global intellectual history.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Part I. A Framework for Debate
1. Approaches to Global Intellectual History Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Part II. Alternative Options
2. Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary– Nomadic Frontier Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun Siep Stuurman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacularism, and Premodernity Sheldon Pollock and Sheldon Pollock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Joseph Banks’s Intermediaries Rethinking Global Cultural Exchange Vanessa Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. Global Intellectual History and the History of Political Economy Andrew Sartori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
6. Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century Christopher L. Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
7. Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the “Muslim World” Cemil Aydin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
8. On the Nonglobalization of Ideas Samuel Moyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
9. “Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples’ Feet” Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present, and Future in World History Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
10. Putting Global Intellectual History in Its Place Janaki Bakhle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
11. Making and Taking Worlds Duncan Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Part III. Concluding Reflections
12. How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be? Frederick Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
13. Global Intellectual History Meanings and Methods Sudipta Kaviraj Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352

eBook

Published: June 25, 2013
ISBN: 9780231534598