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Journal of the History of Ideas
,  volume 86 ,  issue 1 ,  pages 75-107

How Knowledge Travels: Learned Periodicals and the Atlantic Republic of Letters

Diego Pirillo
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2025-01-16
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SJR: 0.219
CiteScore: 0.9
Impact factor: 0.4
ISSN: 00225037, 10863222
Abstract
Abstract: Although the Republic of Letters has become today a main area of interdisciplinary research, early North America has remained largely impermeable to this new body of scholarship. In this article I use the category of the Republic of Letters to overcome some of the limitations of the “Atlantic world” paradigm and to shed new light on the intellectual history of eighteenth-century America. Along with studying the means through which American savants gathered information about scholarly trends and recent publications, I also bring to light the strategies they used to actively contribute to the production and organization of knowledge.

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Pirillo D. How Knowledge Travels: Learned Periodicals and the Atlantic Republic of Letters // Journal of the History of Ideas. 2025. Vol. 86. No. 1. pp. 75-107.
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Pirillo D. How Knowledge Travels: Learned Periodicals and the Atlantic Republic of Letters // Journal of the History of Ideas. 2025. Vol. 86. No. 1. pp. 75-107.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1353/jhi.2025.a949928
UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/949928
TI - How Knowledge Travels: Learned Periodicals and the Atlantic Republic of Letters
T2 - Journal of the History of Ideas
AU - Pirillo, Diego
PY - 2025
DA - 2025/01/16
PB - Project MUSE
SP - 75-107
IS - 1
VL - 86
SN - 0022-5037
SN - 1086-3222
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@article{2025_Pirillo,
author = {Diego Pirillo},
title = {How Knowledge Travels: Learned Periodicals and the Atlantic Republic of Letters},
journal = {Journal of the History of Ideas},
year = {2025},
volume = {86},
publisher = {Project MUSE},
month = {jan},
url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/949928},
number = {1},
pages = {75--107},
doi = {10.1353/jhi.2025.a949928}
}
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Pirillo, Diego. “How Knowledge Travels: Learned Periodicals and the Atlantic Republic of Letters.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 86, no. 1, Jan. 2025, pp. 75-107. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/949928.