Andrew Sartori

Professor of History, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Education

University of Chicago, PhD 2003

Areas of Research/Interest

Modern South Asia, British Empire, Intellectual History, History of Economic Thought, History of Capitalism, Social Theory

Books

  • Liberalism In Empire
    University of California Press Books, 2014
    Liberalism In Empire
  • A Companion To Global Historical Thought
    co-edited with Prasenjit Duara, and Viren Murthy (Wiley-Blackwell 2014)
    A Companion To Global Historical Thought
  • Global Intellectual History
    co-edited Samuel Moyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)
    Global Intellectual History
  • Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital
    Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008
    Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital
  • From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition
    co-edited with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Rochona Majumdar (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, April 2007)
    From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition

Articles

“C.A. Bayly and the Question of Indian Political Thought,” Modern Asian Studies, 51, no. 3 (2017), 867-77.

“From Statecraft to Social Science in Early-Modern English Political Economy,” Critical Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (2016), 181-214.

“Intellectual History and Global History,” in A Companion to Intellectual History, ed. Richard Whatmore and Brian Young (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), 201-12.

"The Ends of History: Introduction," Victorian Studies, Vol. 55, No. 4, (Summer 2013), 591-614

"A Liberal Discourse of Custom in Colonial Bengal," Past and Present, 212 (August 2011), 163-97.

"The Transfiguration of Duty in Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita," Modern Intellectual History, vol. 7, no. 2 (2010), 319-34.

"Abul Mansur Ahmad and the Cultural Politics of Bengali Pakistanism," in From the Colonial to the Postcolonial.

"Beyond Culture-Contact and Colonial Discourse: 'Germanism' in Colonial Bengal," Modern Intellectual History, vol. 4, no. 1, 2007.

"The British Empire and its Liberal Mission," Journal of Modern History, vol. 78, no. 3 (September 2006), 623-642.

"The Resonance of 'Culture': Framing a Problem in Global Concept-History," Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 47, no. 4 (October 2005), 676-699.

"Emancipation as Heteronomy: The Crisis of Liberalism in Later Nineteenth-Century Bengal," Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 17, no. 1 (March 2004), 56-86.

"The Categorical Logic of a Colonial Nationalism: Swadeshi Bengal, 1904-1908," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 23, nos. 1&2 (2003), 271-285.

"Robert Redfield's Comparative Civilizations Project and the Political Imagination of Postwar America," Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, vol. 6, no. 1 (1998), 33-65.