G l o PraisE for b Global Global Intellectual History a where do ideas fit into historical l accounts that take an expansive, global view I of human movements and events? Teaching “As intellectual history takes a global turn, the field n I n t e l l e c t u a l scholars of intellectual history to incorporate urgently needs inspiring examples and salutary skepticism. t e transnational perspectives into their work, Global Intellectual History provides both in equal measure through multiple l samuel moyn is a professor in the Depart- l while also recommending how to confront models drawn from exceptionally broad expanses of both time e ment of History at Columbia University. He the challenges and controversies that may and space. The result is a milestone, a collection of the first importance c is the editor of Pierre Rosanvallon’s Democ- t History arise, this original resource explains the for global historians and intellectual historians alike.” u racy Past and Future and the author of The concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of a Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. —David Armitage, Harvard University, l “global intellectual history,” featuring essays author of Foundations of Modern International Thought H by leading scholars on various approaches andrew sartori is associate professor of that are taking shape across the discipline. history at New York University. He is the “Conceptually and substantively sophisticated, i The contributors to Global Intellectual s author of Bengal in Global Concept History: this volume of essays will be widely welcomed by a variety History explore the different ways in which t Culturalism in the Age of Capital and the co- of historians. The field is a burgeoning one, but there is little to shape o one can think about the production, dis- editor of From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: it collectively at present. This volume is among the first to focus r semination, and circulation of “global” ideas India and Pakistan in Transition. and ask whether global intellectual history on the comparative merits of global intellectual history.” y can indeed produce legitimate narratives. —Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge, They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit author of The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, M within current conceptions of global frames and Judgement in Modern Political Thought and processes of globalization and proto- o y globalization, and they distinguish between E n d ideas of the global and those of the trans- i & t national, identifying what each contributes E S d to intellectual history. A crucial guide, this a b collection sets conceptual coordinates for r y t readers eager to map an emerging area of study. o Jacket design: Catherine Casalino r i Jacket image: © haveseen–Fotolia.com columbia stud ies in inter natio nal and gl obal his tory EditEd by ISBN: 978-0-231-16048-3 columbia univers ity press Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori new york 9 780231 160483 cup.columbia.edu columbia printed in the u.s.a. Global Intellectual History Columbia Studies in International and Global History Columbia Studies in International and Global History Matthew Connelly and Adam McKeown, Series Editors The idea of “globalization” has become a commonplace, but we lack good histories that can explain the transnational and global processes that have shaped the contemporary world. Columbia Studies in Inter- national and Global History will encourage serious scholarship on international and global history with an eye to explaining the origins of the contemporary era. Grounded in empirical research, the titles in the series will also transcend the usual area boundaries and will address questions of how history can help us understand contempo- rary problems, including poverty, inequality, power, political violence, and accountability beyond the nation-state. Cemil Aydin, The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought Adam M. McKeown, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders Patrick Manning, The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture James Rodger Fleming, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control Steven Bryan, The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire Heonik Kwon, The Other Cold War Global Intellectual History EditEd by Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori ColuMBIA unIveRSITy PReSS NEW YORk Columbia university Press Publishers Since 1893 new york Chichester, West Sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2013 Columbia university Press All rights reserved library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Global intellectual history / edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. pages cm. — (Columbia studies in international and global history) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBn 978-0-231-16048-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBn 978-0-231-53459-8 (e-book) 1. Intellectual life—Philosophy. 2. Civilization, Modern—Philosophy. I. Moyn, Samuel, author, editor of compilation. II. Sartori, Andrew, 1969– author, editor of compilation. CB358.G56 2013 306.4ꞌ2—dc23 2012042114 Columbia university Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in the united States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover design: Catherine Casalino Cover image: © haveseen – Fotolia.com References to Web sites (uRls) were accurate at the time of writing. neither the editors nor Columbia university Press is responsible for uRls that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. Contents Preface vii Part I. A Framework for Debate 1. Approaches to Global Intellectual History 3 SamuEl moyn and andrEw Sartori Part II. Alternative Options 2. Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary– nomadic Frontier: Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun 33 SiEp Stuurman 3. Cosmopolitanism, vernacularism, and Premodernity 59 ShEldon pollock 4. Joseph Banks’s Intermediaries: Rethinking Global Cultural exchange 81 VanESSa Smith 5. Global Intellectual History and the History of Political economy 110 andrEw Sartori Vi contEntS 6. Conceptual universalization in the Transnational nineteenth Century 134 chriStophEr l. hill 7. Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the “Muslim World” 159 cEmil aydin 8. on the nonglobalization of Ideas 187 SamuEl moyn 9. “Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples’ Feet”: Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present, and Future in World History 205 mamadou diouf and Jinny praiS 10. Putting Global Intellectual History in Its Place 228 Janaki bakhlE 11. Making and Taking Worlds 254 duncan bEll Part III. Concluding Reflections 12. How Global Do We Want our Intellectual History to Be? 283 frEdErick coopEr 13. Global Intellectual History: Meanings and Methods 295 Sudipta kaViraJ Contributors 321 Index 325 Preface T his volume began with a conference with the same title, which took place on April 9 and 10, 2010. The conference was held un- der the auspices of the new york area’s Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History, with generous funding and logistical assistance from new york university’s erich Maria Remarque Institute. For mak- ing the event possible, the editors thank Katherine Fleming, Tony Judt, and Jennifer Ren. For the participation in this enterprise at the conference, or later, of Thomas Bender, Manu Bhagavan, Federico Finchelstein, Suzanne Marchand, Walter Mignolo, Timothy Roberts, Dominic Sachsenmaier, Jerrold Seigel, and Gary Wilder, the editors also are grateful. In between the conference and the volume, the Columbia univer- sity Press editorial staff smoothed the way, with special thanks to our acquiring editor Anne Routon, her assistant Alison Alexanian, and the four anonymous readers they commissioned for their astute guidance. Having much more pressing local business than the exploration of global intellectual history promised, our families—Amy, Alisa, lily, Izzie, and Madeleine—did not help with this book but deserve our thanks anyway, with love and affection. Global Intellectual History