appearance of nationalism in each country is influenced by some social , religious and political factors throughout the history of that country in iranian contemporary history, this process has also been dependent upon opinions and thoughts of some of the nationalist intellectuals and modernists their intellectual products played an important role in various social , intellectual and even artis...

Quentin Skinner’s appropriation of speech act theory for intellectual history has been extremely influential. even as the model continues to be important for historians, however, philosophers now regard the original speech act theory paradigm as dated. are there more recent initiatives that might reignite theoretical work in this area? This article argues that the inferentialism of Robert brand...

Harvard University now boasts of a great number of accomplished historians whose interests and methods align them primarily—though not necessarily exclusively—with intellectual history. These include (in alphabetical order): David Armitage, Ann Blair, Peter Bol, Joyce Chaplin, Peter Gordon, James Hankins, Andrew Jewett, James Kloppenberg, and Emma Rothschild. But just what is intellectual history?