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Here are some highlights from what our editors have been reading this month—with another installment next weekend. Let us know what you’ve been reading, or if one of your favorites is here. Sarah Elaine Mokhtefi moved to Paris from New York… Continue Reading →
The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 79, number 3 (July 2018), is now available in print, and online at Project Muse. In the coming weeks, we will be featuring companion pieces by many of the… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Tiraana Bains Intellectual histories of India, particularly of the decades and centuries following the mid-eighteenth century, are often histories of Europe’s India: India as it was imagined and understood or misunderstood by Europeans. Representations, discourses, knowledge forms,… Continue Reading →
Every year, the Journal of the History of Ideas awards the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history. The winner of the 2017 Forkosch Prize has been is Eli Cook, for The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Nuala F. Caomhánach The tale about gag knuckles, taz-two, hairpin, ribbons, and treble clef is quite elusive. Although they sound more like nicknames of a 1920’s bootlegging gang (at least to me) they are the formal… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Professor Sumit Guha This essay addresses the shifting connection between signifier and signified, word and thing, by looking at the history of an important and yet so protean sociological term: ‘tribe’. My argument is that ‘tribe’ is a… Continue Reading →
A note from the Editors: We are delighted to announce a new feature: a monthly email gathering recent posts on JHIBlog, related links, updates from our parent journal, and other news of interest to our readers. To subscribe, click here.
By guest contributor Jonathan Potter Reviewing the 1842 Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, the art critic John Eagles wrote of J. M. W. Turner’s paintings: They are like the “Dissolving Views,” which, when one subject is melting into another, and… Continue Reading →
