Category What We’re Reading

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section! Emily: Absolutely required listening this week… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section! Emily: Clerk of Oxford, The Danish… Continue Reading →

We are on Facebook! Please like our page, where we’ll be posting blog content and other news of relevance to the JHI community, just as we do Twitter. Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section! Emily: As we went to press,… Continue Reading →

These last chapters in The Transformation of the World, five and six, have a lot to say about very European stories of industrialization, agricultural reform, medical advances, changes in patterns of life. Osterhammel writes that only European nations kept the… Continue Reading →

This week we read chapters four and five of The Transformation of the World—on “Mobilities” and “Living Standards” respectively—which raise some interesting questions about the state of social history in our current historiographical moment. A variety of empirical and materialist… Continue Reading →

This week we tackled the introduction and first three chapters of Jürgen Osterhammel’s The Transformation of the World. Those of you who are reading along with us may also have been struck by the sheer scale of Osterhammel’s panorama, and… Continue Reading →

If you’re reading Osterhammel along with us, we’ll be discussing Part One: Approaches (the first 115 pages) next week. Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that… Continue Reading →

First, this week, a quick announcement: over the summer, we’ll be hosting a book club/series of blog posts about “big” history, centered on Jürgen Osterhammel’s recent The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, 2014)…. Continue Reading →