Intellectual History

Recent decades have seen a remarkable growth of interest in intellectual history. Intellectual history has become a popular branch of historical studies at the same time as it has a growing audience among students reading politics, philosophy, international relations, English and other academic areas across the Arts and Social Sciences. This collection will provide a comprehensive survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline, and of recent research undertaken by scholars in Britain, Europe, North America, and the wider world from ancient times to the present. Numerous chapters will provide an expert overview of the current practice of intellectual history, and include seminal writings by contemporary intellectual historians that have caused particular historiographical controversy. The work will provide a synthesis of past and current work but will pay special attention to prevailing controversies in order to provide readers with an up to date sense of the area. In line with the format prescribed for the series, the aim is a work that is an accessible guide to the field of intellectual history, while at the same time providing a critical overview of research as it currently stands.