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I looked at many different journals and what I have found is that my project fits into most, if not all, interdisciplinary journals - even though there may not be many similar articles that have already been published. Or, perhaps there are many articles that share only one or two similarities with my subject. Also, it appears that many of the Atlantic and Transatlantic studies journals are 1. fairly recenty (most have not started any earlier than the mid/late 90s) and; 2. published only three to two times a year. I looked into Science as Culture and it appears that they would be amenable to my topic (because they published reviews of Turnbull), but I did not really see any related articles at this time. I also think that this project would fit into Science Studies.

The majority of the articles are book reviews and museum exhibit reviews. The journal also includes some essays from a variety of scholars in different fields. Culture and Technology has many entries that relate more closely to my topic in the area of colonialism and imperialism, however, many of these articles are book reviews. This journal also includes an entire subject area devoted to maritime studies. Readers are described as “engineers, anthropologists, sociologists, museum curators, archivists, historians, and others.” The diverse audience of the journal, as well as the focus on reviews and history, seems to indicate that there are no set expectations.
 * Culture and Technology, refereed journal**

Articles: Adas, Michael. A Field Matures: Technology, Science, and Western Colonialism. Vol. 38 No. 2 (April 1997) pp. 478 Subject(s): Colonialism, Imperialism, Historiography

Exchange: Does SCOT Answer? A Comment. Vol. 43 No. 2 (April 2002) pp. 371-373 Subject(s): Historiography. Bijker, Wiebe E., ed. Social construction of technological systems: new directions in the sociology and history of technology. Hughes, Thomas Parke, ed. Pinch, T. J. (Trevor J.), ed.Technology -- Social aspects. Summary: An exchange/debate about the merits of SCOT as proposed in the article "The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other"

Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane and Catherine Verna. Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era: New Approaches and Methodological Issues. Vol. 47 No. 3 (July 2006) pp. 536. Subject(s): Early Modern Technology, Technology Transfer, Histiography

Mukerji, Chandra. Tacit Knowledge and Classical Technique in Seventeenth-Century France: Hydraulic Cement as a Living Practice among Masons and Military Engineers. Vol. 47 No. 4 (October 2006) pp. 713. Subject(s): Early Modern Technology, Technology Transfer, Building

Portuondo, María. Plantation Factories: Science and Technology in Late-Eighteenth-Century Cuba. Vol. 44 No. 2 (April 2003) pp. 231 Subjects(s): Colonialsim, Imperialism, Agriculture, Science

Related Book Reviews: Headrick, Daniel R. Review of Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaption, and Adoption, by Michael Adas. Vol. 39 No. 2 (April 1998) pp. 352 Subject(s): Technology Transfer, Colonialism, Imperialism

Ganz, Cheryl. Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change, by Chris Gosden and Chantal Knowles. Vol. 44 No. 2 (April 2003) pp. 410. Subject(s): Material Culture, Colonialsim, Imperialism

Gordon, Robert. European Metals in Native Hands: Rethinking Technological Change, 1640–1683, by Kathleen L. Ehrhardt. Vol. 47 No. 2 (April 2006) pp. 415. Subject(s): Technology Transfer, Material Culture

Interdisciplinary in nature and global in scope, covering the 10th century to modern times, with aspects of colonialism and imperialism in the broadest sense of these terms. The stance should be narrative and empirical, rather than theoretical, although certain theoretical issues such as post-colonialism are not excluded. The journal includes many reviews as well as articles and is published three times a year.
 * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, refereed journal**

Articles: Douglas, Starr. The making of scientific knowledge in an age of slavery: Henry Smeathman, Sierra Leone and natural history. Volume 9, Number 3, Winter 2008. Subject(s): Knowledge and learning, Discovery and exploration, Natural History Summary: The naturalist Henry Smeathman lived and worked in Sierra Leone for nearly four years in the 1770s. The fruits of his labours during this period helped not only to shape the newly-emerging scientific field of entomology, but also had a lasting impact on the way in which the histories of colonisation and philanthropy in Sierra Leone have been understood.

Lokken, Paul. Useful Enemies: Seventeenth-Century Piracy and the Rise of Pardo Militias in Spanish Central America. Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 2004. Subject(s): Colonies, Race Relations, 17th Century History Summary: An extension in the “alternative labor pool” - as in piracy – allowed former slaves to reshape their identity starting in the 1640s – the beginning of the Golden Age of Piracy.

Reviews: Anderson, Clare. Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, by Steven Pierce and Anupama Rao. Volume 7, Number 3, Winter 2006 Subject(s): Criminality, Colonialism, The body Summary: Focuses on the centrality of violence to the supposedly "civilizing mission" of European empires. The editors argue that bodily violence and its relationship to colonial reason were central to histories of the colonial body and repertoires of colonial governance.

Delbourgo, James. How to Write the History of the New World: Historiographies, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, by Caizares-Esguerra Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2002 Subject(s): Historiography, Atlantic Studies, 18th Century History Summary: Hypothesizes that questions of historiography are best approached as questions of epistemology. In the eighteenth century, according to the author, Northern Europeans developed a "new art of reading" (12) in which the historical reliability of texts came to be judged by their internal logical consistency.

Linton, Joan Pong. Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World 1580-1640, by Rebecca Ann Bach. Volume 4, Number 3, Winter 2003 Subject(s): Colonialism, Transatlantic Studies, Material Culture

The journal is published on behalf of MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), the Journal aims to be an important site for scholarship on the comparative study of multi-ethnic cultures and societies. It challenges nationalist histories and literatures by focusing on the Atlantic as an arena of cultural change and exchange, translation and interference, communication and passage. Area of study include history, cultural studies, critical theory, and literature from academics, public intellectuals, contemporary commentators, and activists whose focus of interest lies in circumatlantic perspectives. The Journal also publishes work based on visual materials as photography, film, and information media. Each volume will also include book and media reviews.
 * Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural and Historical Perspectives, refereed journal**

Boelhower, William. "I'll teach you how to flow": On figuring out Atlantic studies. Volume 1, Issue 1 2004, pages 28 – 48. Subject(s): Diaspora Studies; Imperial & Colonial History; Literature & Culture.

Ginger, Andrew. Cultural Modernity and Atlantic Perspectives. Volume 4, Issue 1 April 2007, pages 27 – 36. Subject(s): Diaspora Studies; Imperial & Colonial History; Literature & Culture; Summary: The article considers in particular the role of “fresh seeing,” “absorption,” and reflexive self-awareness of the medium on both sides of the Atlantic. The Atlantic perspective calls significantly into question the model of distinct, plural, polycentric modernisms, but equally is at odds with the assertion of transnational commonalities across modernisms.

Smith, Jeremy. Civilizational Sociology and Perspectives on the Atlantic. Volume 2, Issue 2 October 2005, pages 199 – 217. Subject(s): civilizational sociology; colonialism; civilizational imaginary; Atlantic world; Diaspora Studies; Imperial & Colonial History; Literature & Culture. Summary: Brings together sociology and Atlantic studies. fresh approach to the study of civilizations is sketched in a way that reconstructs theoretical conclusions drawn in historical sociology so that it will be of interest to specialists in Atlantic Studies.

Sweeney, Carol. The Unmaking of the World: Haiti, History, and Writing Edouard Glissant and Edwige Danticat. Volume 4, Issue 1 April 2007, pages 51 - 66 Subject(s): Diaspora Studies; Imperial & Colonial History; Literature & Culture;