"The investigative premise of intellectual history is that ideas do not develop in isolation from the thinkers who conceptualize and apply those ideas."
This Political History studies the ideas and intellectual movements related to politics and governance.
"(i) as abstract propositions for critical application; and (ii) in concrete terms of culture, life, and history."
"The history of ideas emerged from the European disciplines of Kulturgeschichte (Cultural History) and Geistesgeschichte (Intellectual History)."
"To develop a global intellectual history that shows the parallels and the interrelations in the history of critical thinking in every society."
"The history of reading, and the history of the book, about the material aspects of book production (design, manufacture, distribution) developed from the history of ideas."
"The concerns of intellectual history are the intelligentsia and the critical study of the ideas expressed in the texts produced by intellectuals; therein the difference between intellectual history from other forms of cultural history that study visual and non-verbal forms of evidence."
"The concept of the intellectual as a political citizen of public society dates from the 19th century."
"Anyone who explored his or her thoughts on paper can be the subject of an intellectual history."
"The Cheese and the Worms (1976), Carlo Ginzburg's study of the 16th-century Italian miller Menocchio (1532–1599) and his cosmology, falls within the genre of intellectual history..."
"The Journal of the History of Ideas is one of the flagship journals in intellectual history."