{"id":702,"date":"2020-02-20T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=702"},"modified":"2020-02-20T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:39:00","slug":"proof-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Proof positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Page-proof-709x1024.png\" alt=\"Proof of book chapter.\" class=\"wp-image-703\" width=\"355\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Page-proof-709x1024.png 709w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Page-proof-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Page-proof-624x901.png 624w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Page-proof.png 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite innumerable advances in the technologies of publishing, some forms of academic writing still take a long time to proceed from screen to print. For that reason, the arrival of page proofs is always a welcome event: a material reminder that words written perhaps many years ago are soon to find their way into the world. Today I received proofs for a chapter I have written for a forthcoming edited collection, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781526126382\/\">Empire and mobility in the long nineteenth century<\/a><\/em>. The book had its origins in a <a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=329\">pair of paper sessions<\/a> at the 2015 International Conference of Historical Geographers, organised by its editors, Peter Merriman and David Lambert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although my understanding of Macintosh has developed significantly in the five years between the conference and the book, I am really very pleased with the way the chapter\u2014&#8221;A contested vision of empire: anonymity, authority, and mobility in the reception of William Macintosh\u2019s\u00a0<em>Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa<\/em>\u00a0(1782) &#8220;\u2014stands up. I look forward to reading the work of the other contributors when the book is published in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite innumerable advances in the technologies of publishing, some forms of academic writing still take a long time to proceed from screen to print. For that reason, the arrival of page proofs is always a welcome event: a material reminder that words written perhaps many years ago are soon to find their way into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}