Includes bibliographical references and index.

Approaches to global intellectual history / Samuel Moyn and Andrew S artori -- Common humanity and cultural difference on the sedentary-noma dic frontier : Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun / Siep Stuurman - - Cosmopolitanism, vernacularism, and premodernity / Sheldon Pollock -- Joseph Banks's intermediaries : rethinking global cultural exchange / Vanessa Smith -- Global intellectual history and the history of politic al economy / Andrew Sartori -- Conceptual universalization in the trans national nineteenth century / Christopher L. Hill -- Globalizing the in tellectual history of the idea of the "Muslim world" / Cemil Aydin -- O n the nonglobalization of ideas / Samuel Moyn -- "Casting the badge of inferiority beneath Black peoples' feet" : archiving and reading the Af rican past, present, and future in world history / Mamadou Diouf and Ji nny Prais -- Putting global intellectual history in its place / Janaki Bakhle -- Making and taking worlds / Duncan Bell -- How global do we wa nt our intellectual history to be? / Frederick Cooper -- Global intelle ctual history : meanings and methods / Sudipta Kaviraj.