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Atlantic Studies: Global Currents
 Atlantic Studies: Global Currents is a multidisciplinary quarterly that publishes cutting-edge research, studying the Atlantic world as a conceptual, historical, and cultural space. It explores transnational, transhistorical, and transdisciplinary intersections, but also addresses global flows and perspectives beyond the Atlantic as a closed or self-contained space. In the larger context of global flows, the journal considers the Atlantic as part of wider networks, a space of exchange, and an expanding paradigm beyond the limits of its own geography, moving beyond national, regional, and continental divides by examining entangled histories and cultures. Published on behalf of MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), the journal challenges critical orthodoxies that have drawn sharp lines between the experiences and representations of the Atlantic world and its wider global context, in particular in relation to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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2010 06, Volume 7, Number 2
Special issue on , Alexander von Humbold’s Transatlantic Personae
Editorial: Alexander von Humboldt’ transatlantic personae
Special Issue: Alexander von Humboldt's transatlantic personae
Everything is Interrelated, even the Errors in the System: Alexander von Humboldt and Globalization
This article is an English version of the final chapter of Ette's Alexander von Humboldt und die Globalisierung. Das Mobile des Wissen, published by Insel in 2009.
Skewering the Enlightenment: Alexander von Humboldt and Immanuel Kant as Fictional Characters
Recent German fiction has given an imaginative nuance to the general postmodern critique of the Enlightenment by parodying some of its leading adherents. This essay analyzes two of these works, Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt, a fictional biography of the intertwined lives of the explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß, and Klaas Huizing's novel Das Ding an sich, a fantastic tale which takes a real-life episode from the life of the philosopher Johann Georg Hamann and gives it a grotesque twist in order to parody the man who first defined the Enlightenment in Germany, Immanuel Kant. For purposes of contrast, I examine another work of Humboldt fiction that tends to valorize the Enlightenment and Humboldt's place in this movement, Christoph Hein's short story "Die russischen Briefe des Jägers Johann Seifert." I stress both Kant's influence on Humboldt and the antithetical trajectory of their lives at the conclusion.
Welcoming Alexander von Humboldt in Santa Fé de Bogotá, or, the Creoles self-celebration in the colonial city
On July 8, 1801, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland arrived in Bogotá. They were welcomed by a large parade that escorted them from the edges of the city to the house of José Celestino Mutis, director of the Royal Botanical Expedition of the New Kingdom of Granada and the first promoter of the Natural Philosophy in this Kingdom. This essay explores two main ideas from the perspective of political symbolism: First, I argue that this magnificent welcome was a sign of respect and admiration for the German scientist, while at the same time serving as an opportunity for New Granada's educated Creoles to publicly call attention to their importance and prestige. Second, I will explore Humboldt's thoughts about the Creoles' social attitudes and colony's potential emancipation from Spain.
Reading Juan Francisco Manzano in the wake of Alexander von Humboldt
Colonial scholars have recently begun to pay closer attention to the traffic of the work of Cuban poet Juan Francisco Manzano between the Caribbean and Europe, pointing out that the first version of his so-called slave narrative, along with a selection of his poetry, was first published in English translation in London in 1840. This recent shift in Manzano studies signals a growing recognition of the Cuban poet's circulation in an international abolitionist discourse, despite the fact that he himself never left Cuba or even denounced slavery explicitly. By situating Manzano temporally and spatially in relation to the Alexander von Humboldt and his comments on Cuban slavery, we can better understand the participation of both in transatlantic efforts to expose and question colonial servitude in the Americas.
About an attempt to climb to the top of Chimborazo
Alexander von Humboldt wrote the final version of "Über einen Versuch den Gipfel des Chimborazo zu ersteigen" almost fifty years after his return from the Americas. He published it in his Kleinere Schriften [Shorter writings] in 1853, a scan of which is available from Google Books. As Humboldt himself mentions, he based a good part of this essay, on his travel diary from June 23, 1802. Although he followed his diary fairly closely, Humboldt, as was his wont, updated the essay to include recent information. The earlier version from 1838 lacks the later, revised essay's copious endnotes.
Other Issues
June 2015, Volume 12, Number 2
March 2015, Volume 12, Number 1
, Volume 11, Number 4, Atlantic childhood and youth
2014 09, Volume 11, Number 3 Irish Global Migration
2014 06, Volume 11, Number 2
2014 03, Volume 11, Number 1
2013 12, Volume 10, Number 4
2013 09, Volume 10, Number 3
2013 06, Volume 10, Number 2
2013 03, Volume 10, Number 1 The French Atlantic Studies
2012 12, Volume 9, Number 4
2012 09, Volume 9, Number 3 Slave Trade Memorialization
2012 06, Volume 9, Number 2
2012 03, Volume 9, Number 1 The Planter Class
2011 12, Volume 8, Number 4
2011 09, Volume 8, Number 3
2011 06, Volume 8, Number 2 Abolitionist places
2011 03, Volume 8, Number 1
2010 12, Volume 7, Number 4 Atlantic Science -- New Approaches
2010 09, Volume 7, Number 3
2010 03, Volume 7, Number 1
2009 12, Volume 6, Number 3
2009 08, Volume 6, Number 2
2009 04, Volume 6, Number 1
2008 12, Volume 5, Number 3 New Orleans in the Atlantic World II
2008 08, Volume 5, Number 2 New Orleans in the Atlantic World
2008 04, Volume 5, Number 1
2007 10, Volume 4, Number 2
2007 04, Volume 4, Number 1 The French Atlantic
2006 10, Volume 3, Number 2
2006 04, Volume 3, Number 1
2005 10, Volume 2, Number 2
2005 04, Volume 2, Number 1
2004 10, Volume 1, Number 2
2004 04, Volume 1, Number 1