Remapping the Globe in an Imperial Century: Investigating the Textual Cartographies of Simon Bolivar, Domingo Sarmiento, and Jose Marti

作为对思想史的贡献，这个项目最好的特点是两个相关的部分：（I）一个新的方法的阐述-我称之为“文本制图”-为全球思想史子领域和（II）这种方法的应用到19世纪世纪拉丁美洲政治思想的三个数字：西蒙·玻利瓦尔（1783-1830）、多明戈·萨米恩托（1811- 1888）和何塞·马蒂（1853- 1895）。这三个被选中是因为他们共同的权威地位，以及他们与帝国权力和西班牙美洲在一个由它主导的世界中的地位的共同智力参与。我相信，后一种应用的练习将更新我们对这些行为者用他们的写作所做的事情的理解，反过来，这将说明文本制图作为一种新形式的解释实践的价值。文本地图学是一种方法，专注于思想史档案中的概念被政治思想家用作“地图工具”的方式，通过这种方式，政治思想家将政治文化意义的空间铭刻到他们对地球仪的话语建构中。具体地说，这意味着当概念被用作地球表面的空间分类（通常是规范性的）的模式时。这种方法的潜在效用是广泛的。它的重点表明，对主题没有直接的限制。因此，超越思想史和更广泛的人文学科的学科领域不能被排除在文本地图学之外。Bolivar、Sarmiento和Marti为文本地图学的有效演示做出了很好的战略选择。作为拉丁美洲政治思想史上的典型人物，随后围绕他们建立了大量的阅读资料，他们是对比展示我的方法中新的解释收益的理想史学选择。此外，他们中的每一个人都被传统的民族范畴内的分析家所框定，但在这里，用一种从全球思想史发展出来的方法，他们的研究的全球性是集中的。因此，这个项目也将做重要的，一般性的工作，使拉丁美洲的思想史进入弧的初期“全球转向”在我们的领域。

As a contribution to Intellectual History, this project is best-characterised as two, related parts: (I) an elaboration of a new method - which I term 'Textual Cartography' - for the Global Intellectual History sub-field and (II) the application of this method to three figures of 19th century Latin American political thought: Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), Domingo Sarmiento (1811-88), and Jose Marti (1853-95). These three have been chosen for their shared canonical status and their common intellectual engagement with imperial power and Spanish America's place in a world dominated by it. The latter exercise in application will, I am confident, renovate our understanding of what these actors were doing with their writing which, in turn, will illustrate the value of Textual Cartography as a new form of interpretive practise. Textual Cartography is an approach focused upon the ways in which the concepts in the archive of Intellectual History have been used by political thinkers as 'cartographic devices' with which to inscribe spaces of politico-cultural significance onto their discursive constructions of the globe. Concretely, this means when concepts have been used as schema for the spatial classification - often normative - of the Earth's surface. The potential utility of this approach is expansive. Its focus suggests no immediate limits on subject matter. As such, the disciplinary terrains beyond Intellectual History and toward the broader Humanities cannot be put out-of-bounds to Textual Cartography. Bolivar, Sarmiento, and Marti make a good strategic choice for the effective demonstration of Textual Cartography. As canonical figures in the history of Latin American political thought, with a subsequent concentration of readings built up around them, they are the ideal historiographical choice for contrastively showing the new interpretive gains in my method. Moreover, each of them has been conventionally framed by analysts within the national category, but here, with a method developed out of Global Intellectual History, the globality of their imaginings is centred. This project will thus also do important, general work in bringing Latin American intellectual history into the arc of the incipient 'Global turn' in our field.