1st Edition
Charting the Future Atlantic Studies and Global Currents
Introduction
Charting the future: Twentieth-anniversary issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
1. Decolonization, diversity and accountability: The role of museums in democracies of the global north
William Boelhower
2. “That ancient and modern wonder”: Giraffes, imperialism, and the making of the American menagerie, 1830–1840
Alexander Clayton
3. Transatlantic itinerants and hustlers: Reading the ‘connected histories’ of India and Atlantic worlds in Bartholomew Burges’s A Series of Indostan Letters (1790)
Rajender Kaur
4. Amphibious landings: Free people of color, food supply, and contested land tenure on the Magdalena River network (1796–1806)
Valeria Mantilla Morales
5. Across the Atlantic: Morbidity, geography, and the eighteenth-century French Atlantic slave trade
Elise A. Mitchell
6. A Spanish colony made of foreigners: Transimperial Trinidad during the age of revolutions
Cristina Soriano
7. Modern American Indians in (and beyond) the Deutsche Reich: (Re)Claiming Indigenous lands, nations, and futures through transatlantic Indigenous travel
Michael P. Taylor
8. Wandering books in the global Enlightenment: The life of an eighteenth-century library that crisscrossed the Atlantic
María Bárbara Zepeda Cortés
9. Atlantification: Facing the Atlantic from the Arctic – a provocation
Hester Blum
Biography
Emily Berquist Soule is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach, California, USA.
Rocio G. Davis is Professor of Literature at the University of Navarra, Spain.
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung is retired Senior Lecturer in the English Department and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Nathaniel Millett is Associate Professor of History at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
