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Writing the Latin American Age of Revolutions (1770-1870): From Political Culture to Social Form

by Benjamin Gaillard-Garrido

Devotional Poetry and Political Economy in Early Colonial Bengal

By Anirban Karak

Is There a Social History of Indian Liberalism?

by guest contributor Anirban Karak

In Theory: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Jessica Whyte about Human Rights and Neoliberalism

by co-host Disha Karnad Jani

JHIBlog Podcast: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Eli Cook

Our editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Prof. Eli Cook, winner of the Journal of the History of Ideas‘s Morris D. Forkosch Prize for The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life (Harvard University Press, 2017). [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/599398815″ params=”color=#88642c&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true” width=”100%”… Continue Reading →

The Emotional Life of Laissez-Faire: Emulation in Eighteenth-Century Economic Thought

By guest contributor Blake Smith Capitalism is often understood by both critics and defenders as an economic system that gives self-interested individuals free reign to acquire, consume, and compete. There are debates about the extent to which self-interest can be… Continue Reading →

We should justify ourselves no more: Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia

by guest contributor Laetitia Citroen 2016 has been a particularly prolific year for the French-speaking African intellectual community, with symbolical landmarks like the appointment of a Congolese award-winning novelist, Alain Mabanckou, as guest-lecturer at the prestigious Collège de France in… Continue Reading →

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