About the publication

Transatlantic Cultures is an open-access, interactive, online publication. Digital publishing enhances the practices of scholarship production, communication, and access to research material, allowing thematic and methodological discussions to be linked to each entry through three broad categories: time, spaces, and topics. The accessibility and sustainability of data are priorities of this project, as are innovative technical solutions for developing content and connecting primary sources and scholarly production. The digital platform will allow the project to evolve over time in a sustainable way that is also responsive to the needs of scholars and readers. A key concern is to elaborate new ways of writing history by integrating written, visual, and audio primary sources to historical narratives, and question the impact of digital publishing on the interpretation and accessibility of research.

All the entries will be available both in English and in the original language used by the author. As funding permits, the contents will be translated into French, Portuguese, and Spanish as well, creating a shared resource readily available to students and the general public in the countries the project covers.

Entries are selected and reviewed by an international editorial board, which is renewed on a regular basis, in order to faithfully reflect the various spaces, topics, and academic fields shaping the project.

Transatlantic Cultures’ goal is to understand how intellectual, literary, and artistic works have circulated between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, contributing to cultural diversity as well as the broader processes of economic, social, and political globalization. Through innovative formats and a new approach to digital research and publication, the project also seeks to contribute in its own way to the circulation of ideas that has shaped the Atlantic region.

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