Book talk: "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820"
- Date
- 8 December 2025, 14:00–15:00
- Location
- SCAS, the Green Room Library, Linneanum, Villavägen 6c, Uppsala
- Type
- Cultural event
- Web page
- https://www.swedishcollegium.se/
- Organiser
- Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
- Contact person
- Mattias Bolkéus Blom
Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan, authors of "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820" (Yale University Press, 2025), will introduce and discuss their new book.
ABSTRACT:
The book explores the intellectual and colonial history of race in Scottish Enlightenment thought in the momentous decades between the 1750s and 1820s. Not only were these crucial years in the consolidation and spread of Enlightenment science and ideas, this was also an era of imperial and colonial expansion, enslavement and slave trading, and unprecedented flows of population worldwide. By placing the formation and impact of ideas against this global and colonial backdrop, the authors offer a new history of the widespread influence of the Scottish Enlightenment by focusing attention of a wide array of lesser-known travellers educated at the University of Edinburgh.