What's the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Durée

What's the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Durée

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What's the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Durée

dc.contributor.author	Armitage, David R.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-12T14:18:49Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.citation	Armitage, David. 2012. What's the big idea? Intellectual history and the longue durée. History of European Ideas 38(4): 493-507.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0191-6599	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9716625
dc.description.abstract	Historians of all kinds are beginning to return to temporally expansive studies after decades of aversion and neglect. There are even signs that intellectual historians are returning to the longue durée. What are the reasons for this revival of long-range intellectual history? And how might it be rendered methodologically robust as well as historically compelling? This article proposes a model of transtemporal history, proceeding via serial contextualism to create a history in ideas spanning centuries, even millennia: key examples come from work in progress on ideas of civil war from ancient Rome to the present. The article concludes with brief reflections on the potential impact of the digital humanities on the practice of intellectual history.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	History	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Taylor & Francis	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	doi:10.1080/01916599.2012.714635	en_US
dash.license	OAP
dc.subject	Cambridge School	en_US
dc.subject	civil war	en_US
dc.subject	conceptual history	en_US
dc.subject	digital humanities	en_US
dc.subject	longue durée	en_US
dc.title	What's the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Durée	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Accepted Manuscript	en_US
dc.relation.journal	History of European Ideas	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Armitage, David R.
dc.date.available	2012-10-12T14:18:49Z