{"id":499,"date":"2017-01-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=499"},"modified":"2017-01-17T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T23:01:11","slug":"macintosh-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Macintosh: published!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mobilites-of-Knowledge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-500\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mobilites-of-Knowledge.jpg\" alt=\"Mobilites of Knowledge\" width=\"153\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am delighted to report\u00a0that the\u00a0first paper\u00a0emerging directly from my research on William Macintosh has just been published in an excellent edited collection,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-319-44654-7\"><em>Mobilities of knowledge<\/em><\/a>. The book has been a rather long time coming (I submitting my chapter in 2012, I think), but has been worth the wait (not least because the book had been published on an open-access basis). The editors,\u00a0Heike J\u00f6ns, Peter Meusburger, and Michael Heffernan, have brought together an interesting and diverse set of contributions that will doubtless appeal to\u00a0scholars in a wide range of disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>My own chapter\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-44654-7_4\">&#8220;Circulating seditious knowledge: the &#8216;daring absurdities, studied misrepresentations, and abominable falsehoods&#8217; of William Macintosh&#8221;<\/a>\u2014examines the authorship, publication, translation, and edition history of\u00a0<em>Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa<\/em>. The abstract follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The author examines the writing, editing, anonymous publication, and translation of a late-eighteenth-century text of travel and political sedition: <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa<\/em> (1782). Written by William Macintosh, a Scots-born Caribbean plantation owner turned political commentator, Travels was considered by contemporaries to be incendiary\u2014precipitating British governmental action against the East India Company, inspiring revolutionary spirit in France, informing politicians in the United States during the drafting of the Constitution, and instructing natural philosophers in Germany on questions of race and civilization. The author argues that the international spatial mobility of Macintosh\u2019s book was facilitated by geographically distinct acts of editing, translation, and reproduction. The complex publication history of <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Travels<\/em>\u2014across editions in English, German, and French\u2014is used to demonstrate that Macintosh\u2019s work was differently staged for different linguistic audiences. The author concludes by reflecting more broadly on the importance of mediation to the mobility of knowledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted to report\u00a0that the\u00a0first paper\u00a0emerging directly from my research on William Macintosh has just been published in an excellent edited collection,\u00a0Mobilities of knowledge. 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