Global Intellectual History

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. -- David Armitage, Harvard University, author of Foundations of Modern International Thought

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.

Preface Part I. A Framework for Debate 1. Approaches to Global Intellectual History (Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori) Part II. Alternative Options 2. Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary-Nomadic Frontier: Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun (Siep Stuurman) 3. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacularism, and Premodernity (Sheldon Pollock) 4. Joseph Banks's Intermediaries: Rethinking Global Cultural Exchange (Vanessa Smith) 5. Global Intellectual History and the History of Political Economy (Andrew Sartori) 6. Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century (Christopher L. Hill) 7. Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the "Muslim World" (Cemil Aydin) 8. On the Nonglobalization of Ideas (Samuel Moyn) 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) 10. Putting Global Intellectual History in Its Place (Janaki Bakhle) 11. Making and Taking Worlds (Duncan Bell) Part III. Concluding Reflections 12. How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be? (Frederick Cooper) 13. Global Intellectual History: Meanings and Methods (Sudipta Kaviraj) List of Contributors Index