Outputs (173)

Repairing Historical Wrongs: Public History and Transatlantic Slavery (2012)
Journal Article
Oldfield, J. (2012). Repairing Historical Wrongs: Public History and Transatlantic Slavery. Social & legal studies, 21(2), 243 - 255. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663911435520

On both sides of the Atlantic, states have tended to react nervously to reparative claims for slavery, just as they have tended to be wary of making apologies of any kind. In the absence of more radical gestures, public history has taken on an added... Read More about Repairing Historical Wrongs: Public History and Transatlantic Slavery.

The Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford, 1638-1648 (2012)
Book
(2012). J. M. Spicksley (Ed.), The Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford, 1638-1648. British Academy. https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780197264324.book.1

Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674-1784 (2012)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2012). Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674-1784. Atlantic Studies: Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives, 9(1), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2012.636993

The decline of West Indian planters in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was both remarkable and, to an extent, inexplicable outside the context of a determined abolitionist onslaught against them. During the eighteenth century, plan... Read More about Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674-1784.

Making a whig empire work: Transatlantic politics and the imperial economy in Britain and British America (2012)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2012). Making a whig empire work: Transatlantic politics and the imperial economy in Britain and British America. William and Mary Quarterly, 69(1), 51-56. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.69.1.0051

Mercantilism has been an important organizing concept not only for Atlantic and early American history but for the disciplines of sociology, economics, and political science as well. What do scholars mean by mercantilism? This article demonstrates th... Read More about Making a whig empire work: Transatlantic politics and the imperial economy in Britain and British America.

From periphery to periphery: The Pennants' Jamaican plantations and industrialisation in North Wales, 1771-1812 (2011)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2011). From periphery to periphery: The Pennants' Jamaican plantations and industrialisation in North Wales, 1771-1812. In H. Bowen (Ed.), Wales and the British Overseas Empire : Interactions and Influences, 1650-1830 (114-142). Manchester University Press

A response by Trevor Burnard (2011)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2011). A response by Trevor Burnard. Journal of American Studies, 45(3), 437-441. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875811000508

Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism (2011)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2011). Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism. Slavery & Abolition, 32(2), 185-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2011.568231

This essay focuses on the competing identities that came to be associated with British West Indians during the foundational period of British abolitionism. The essay evaluates the competing images of the West Indian planter class, paying particular a... Read More about Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism.

The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800 (2011)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Potofsky, A. (2011). The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800. French History, 25(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crq068

Three of the articles in this special issue (Covo, Forestier and Mandelblatt) were presented at a workshop devoted to the political economy of the French Caribbean and the French Atlantic, held at the University of Warwick on 30 November 2009. Thanks... Read More about The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800.

Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820 (2011)
Book
Oldfield, J. R. (2011). Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139344272

Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution offers a fresh exploration of anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It challenges traditional perceptions of early anti-slavery activity as an entirely parochia... Read More about Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820.

Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800 (2011)
Book Chapter
Richardson, D. (2011). Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800. In D. Eltis, & S. L. Engerman (Eds.), The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 3: AD 1420-AD 1804 (563-593). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521840682.024

Any investigation of involuntary migration in the early modern period must recognize that trafficking in human beings was an important feature of life in both the New and the Old Worlds in the period 1500-1800. This chapter focuses on involuntary mig... Read More about Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800.