The Human Shore: Postcolonial Studies in an Age of Natural Science

Research Article| April 01 2012 The Human Shore: Postcolonial Studies in an Age of Natural Science Ian Baucom Ian Baucom Ian Baucom is Professor of English and Director of the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. He is the author of Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity (1999), Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History (2005), and co-editor of Shades of Black: Assembling BlackArts in 1980s Britain (2005). He has also edited special issues of The South Atlantic Quarterly on Atlantic Studies and Romanticism. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.2.1.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ian Baucom; The Human Shore: Postcolonial Studies in an Age of Natural Science. History of the Present 1 April 2012; 2 (1): 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.2.1.0001 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsHistory of the Present Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF.