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Editors: Brandon Byrd Vanderbilt University, USA, Duncan Kelly University of Cambridge, UK, Tracie M. Matysik University of Texas at Austin, USA, Alden Young Yale University, USA, and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Wesleyan University, USA
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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.

Revising the history of early French social science
08 June 2023, Thomas Lalevée
Historians long thought the term science sociale was coined in 1789 by the revolutionary theorist Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès.

Radical Democracy and/or Ordinary Anarchy?
06 June 2023, Sophie Scott-Brown
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...

Lost in Translation: How Wilsonian Propaganda Clashed with Italy’s Reality
17 March 2026, Dario Fazzi
The First World War is often described as the moment when the United States government started its first attempts to design and implement a coordinated, though...

March Releases from Cambridge Aspire, Part 1
16 March 2026, Higher Education
Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as a leading text in professional military education and undergraduate teaching. This third edition has...

Far-Right Extremism in Post-1945 Europe
13 February 2026, Michelle Lynn Kahn, Emile Chabal, Siobhán Hearne and Nikolaos Papadogiannis
As far-right extremism surges across Europe, the editors of Contemporary European History have been searching through the journal’s archives to see what we...

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Marx without Teleology

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Peace and Genocide

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