Launched in 2004, this important new journal serves as a focal point and forum for scholarship on intellectual history and related fields in cultural history from 1650 onwards, with primary attention to Europe and the United States but also to transnational developments that encompass the non-West. MIH enquires into this era's intellectual discourses and texts, their contextual origins and reception, and the recovery of their historical meanings. The term "texts" encompasses various forms of intellectual and cultural expression, including political thought, philosophy, religion, literature, the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the visual arts.