Academic Publications

Bruce Buchan, Linda Andersson Burnett & Ingeborg Høvik, ‘Humanity on the Move in the Era of Colonisation and Enlightenment’, Guest Editors for Global Intellectual History, 2022.

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Collecting Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Edinburgh University’s Natural History Museum’ in Global Intellectual History, 2022.

Bruce Buchan and T. Combe, ‘Among “Savage and Brutal Nations”: Instructing Identity and Science in the Pacific’ Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 45:1 (2022): 29-41.

Bruce Buchan, Linda Andersson Burnett & Ingeborg Høvik.  ‘Humanity on the Move in the Era of Enlightenment and Colonisation’ in Global Intellectual History, 2022.

Bruce Buchan, ‘Travels in space and time: progress, war and the historical mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment’ in Global Intellectual History, 2022.

Bruce Buchan & Silvia Sebastiani, ‘No distinction of black or fair: The Natural History of Race in Adam Ferguson’s Lectures on Moral Philosophy’ Journal of the History of Ideas 82:2 (2021): 207-29.

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Sámi indigeneity in nineteenth-century Swedish and British intellectual debates’ in Routledge Companion to Indigenous Global History. Edited by eds. Ann McGrath & Lynette Russell, 279-301. London: Routledge, 2021.

Bruce Buchan and A. McLaren, ‘Edinburgh’s Enlightenment abroad: navigating humanity as a physician, merchant, natural historian and settler-colonist’ Intellectual History Review 31:4 (2021).                                                  

Buchan Bruce and Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Knowing Savagery: Humanity in the circuits of colonial knowledge’ Guest Editors for The History of the Human Sciences 32:4 (2019).

Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett, Knowing savagery: Australia and the Anatomy of Race’ in History of the Human Sciences 32: 4 (2019): 115-134.

Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan,  ‘Knowing savagery: Humanity in the circuits of colonial knowledge’ History of the Human Sciences 32: 4 (2019): 115-134.

Bruce Buchan, ‘Scottish Medical Ethnography: Colonial Travel, Stadial Theory and the Natural History of Race, c. 1770-1805’ Modern Intellectual History 17:4 (2019): 919-49.  

Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan, ‘The Edinburgh Connection: Linnaean Natural History, Scottish Moral Philosophy and the Colonial Implications of Enlightenment Thought’ in Linnaeus, natural history and the circulation of Knowledge. Edited by K. Nyberg, H. Hodacs and S. Van Damme, 161-186. Oxford: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018.

Outreach Publications and Media

Linda Andersson Burnett participated in radio program ‘Bildningsbyrån: Carl von Linné – blomsterkungen och rasismen.’ 2022

Linda Andersson Burnett and Annika Windahl Pontén, ‘Linnés förhållande till rasism är komplicerat’ i Medicinsk Access no. 4-5 (2021): 74-75.

Bruce Buchan, ‘Australians all: Race and naming colonial Australia’ Meanjin 81:1 (2022): 118-23.

Bruce Buchan, ‘Charting Time and Visualising Race in Europe’s Enlightenment’, Historical Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2022.

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Carl Linnaeus’s expedition to Sápmi in 1732’ Viewpoint Magazine no. 115 (2018).

Bruce Buchan: ‘Botany and the Colonisation of Australia in 1770, The Conversation, 29 April, 2020.

Bruce  Buchan, ‘The Hum(e)an face of Enlightenment: On History and Racism’, featured essay on ABC Religion and Ethics, 2020.

Bruce Buchan and Eddie Synot, 'Terra Nullius Interruptus', The Conversation, 29 April, 2020.

Bruce Buchan, ‘Botany and the Colonisation of Australia in 1770’, The Conversation, 2020.  

Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan: The editor of The History of the Human Sciences interviewed us about our special issue on savagery, 2019.

Image: The circulating library, Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons