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A Companion to Intellectual History

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A Companion to Intellectual History offers a comprehensive exploration of intellectual history as a scholarly discipline. Featuring forty newly-commissioned chapters, it presents leading global research and covers a wide spectrum of topics relevant to the field. The volume provides an in-depth survey of recent methodologies and historiographical debates, paying special attention to contemporary controversies. It also highlights the contributions of intellectual historians to various areas including the history of science, medicine, literary studies, art history, and political thought.
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A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline.

Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practised.

Presents an in-depth survey of recent research and practice of intellectual history.

Written in a clear and accessible manner, designed for an international audience.

Surveys the various methodologies that have arisen and the main historiographical debates that concern intellectual historians.

Pays special attention to contemporary controversies, providing readers with the most current overview of the field.

Demonstrates the ways in which intellectual historians have contributed to the history of science and medicine, literary studies, art history and the history of political thought.

Named Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 by Choice Magazine, a publication of the American Library Association.

Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119125570

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 May 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Richard Whatmore
  • Edited by Brian Young

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 816g

Pages: 472

About the Author

Richard Whatmore is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of Republicanism and the French Revolution (2000) and Against War and Empire (2012).

Brian Young is University Lecturer and Charles Stuart Student and Tutor in Modern History at Christ Church, University of Oxford. He is the author of Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England (1998) and The Victorian Eighteenth Century (2007).

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