Columbia University Press - Global Intellectual History - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise this original resource explains the concepts concerns practice and promise of "global intellectual history " featuring essays by leading scholars on various approaches that are taking shape across the discipline. The contributors to Global Intellectual History explore the different ways in which one can think about the production dissemination and circulation of "global" ideas and ask whether global intellectual history can indeed produce legitimate narratives. They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit within current conceptions of global frames and processes of globalization and proto - globalization and they distinguish between ideas of the global and those of the transnational identifying what each contributes to intellectual history. A crucial guide this collection sets conceptual coordinates for readers eager to map an emerging area of study.
Title: Global Intellectual History
Brand: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231160490
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 5/5/2015
Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Category: History