{"id":829,"date":"2020-10-07T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=829"},"modified":"2020-10-07T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:16:16","slug":"the-expanding-field-of-macintosh-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"The (expanding) field of Macintosh studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Untitled.png 783w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Untitled-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Untitled-768x686.png 768w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Untitled-624x557.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mentioned in an <a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=624\">earlier blog post<\/a>, that I am not entirely alone in my work on Macintosh&#8217;s <em>Travels<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utu.fi\/en\/people\/laura-tarkka-robinson\">Laura Tarkka-Robinson<\/a> from the University of Turku has also been exploring the meaning and significance of <em>Travels<\/em> in relation to ideas of national character and how those ideas intersected with key debates in colonial policy and political economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has recently published a very interesting book chapter, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9783110679861-016\">An empire of renewed ambitions: political economy and national character in the <em>Travels<\/em> (1782) of William Macintosh<\/a>&#8220;, which looks at the relationship between the ideas espoused by Macintosh in <em>Travels<\/em> and those of Adam Smith, particularly as expressed in <em>The Wealth of Nations<\/em> (a book Macintosh read en route to India and to which he responded directly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in an earlier blog post, that I am not entirely alone in my work on Macintosh&#8217;s Travels. Laura Tarkka-Robinson from the University of Turku has also been exploring the meaning and significance of Travels in relation to ideas of national character and how those ideas intersected with key debates in colonial policy and [&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-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}