Outputs (155)

Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor (2015)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J. M. (2015). Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor. Gender and history, 27(2), 263-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12125

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In the transition from medieval notions of usury to modern notions of interest, single women appear to have enjoyed a special role.While probate documents confirm that an increasing number were engaged in interest-bear... Read More about Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor.

Afterword (2015)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2015). Afterword. In J. Metcalf, & C. Spaulding (Eds.), African American Culture and Society After Rodney King: Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism' (303-307). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565989

Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s. In A. McCarthy (Ed.), Ireland in the World Comparative, Transnational, and Personal Perspectives (15-33). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315749020

This chapter characterises the shifting relationship between Irish and Welsh nationalists during the mid-twentieth century and then outlines the cooperative history of several significant Irish and Welsh organisations. The precursor was the Irish Ant... Read More about Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s.

Slaves and Slavery, History of (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Slaves and Slavery, History of. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (54-58). (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.62025-1

Slavery has existed for millennia. It is both a status - an inferior person with no rights in a society - and a condition, a kind of humanity which was accorded fewer rights than other forms of humanity. A slave was the quintessential outsider. Most... Read More about Slaves and Slavery, History of.

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2015)
Book
Eltis, D., & Richardson, D. (2015). Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Yale University Press

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-... Read More about Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Colonies and colonization (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Colonies and colonization. In J. C. Miller, V. Brown, J. Cañizares-Esguerra, L. Dubois, & K. Ordahl Kupperman (Eds.), The Princeton companion to Atlantic history (107-108). Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852215

Plantation societies (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Plantation societies. In J. H. Bentley, S. Subrahmanyam, & M. E. Wiesner-Hanks (Eds.), The Cambridge World History Vol.6 The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 2: Patterns of Change (263-282). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139022460.012

Few institutions define world history in the early modern era as completely as the plantation complex. Initiated in Europe; realised in the tropical and semi-tropical regions of the Americas; involving both Asia as a source of capital and Asians as l... Read More about Plantation societies.

Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867 (2014)
Book
Richardson, D. (2014). D. Richardson, & F. Ribeiro da Silva (Eds.). Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004280588

Studies of the South Atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections between Angola and Brazil, and specifically on the flows of enslaved Africans from Luanda and the relations between Portuguese-Brazilian traders and other agents and their... Read More about Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867.

Teaching in Europe and researching in the United States (2014)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., Nagler, J., Newman, S., & Živojinović, D. (2014). Teaching in Europe and researching in the United States. American Historical Review, 119(3), 771-779. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.3.771

Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model (2014)
Journal Article
Datta, M. N., & Bales, K. (2014). Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model. Human rights quarterly, 36(2), 277-295. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2014.0025

Since the passage of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act and the United Nations Palermo Protocols of 2000, there has been an increased focus on the magnitude and complexity of modern day slavery. Yet, surprisingly, little empirical... Read More about Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model.