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Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000 (2023)
Thesis
Fleury, S. (2023). Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4311824

This study uses an eco-global criminological approach to understanding how children may migrate in the future as a result of environmental change, including climate change, and the human rights abuses they may face without adequate protections. It an... Read More about Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000.

Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution (2023)
Book
Burnard, T. (in press). Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press

Based on a close reading of nearly four hundred articles in leading journals published over the past decade, Trevor Burnard provides an unprecedented examination and analysis of the direction of the field encompassed by the popular hashtag #VastEarly... Read More about Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution.

Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica (2023)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Haggerty, S. (in press). Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica. Enterprise & society, https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2023.2

Recent work on white women in Jamaica has shown that they were active participants in Jamaica’s slave economy. This article adds to this recent literature through an innovative use of social network analysis (SNA) to examine the credit networks in wh... Read More about Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica.

Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean (2023)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2023). Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean. In D. A. Pargas, & J. Schiel (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History (395-412). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13260-5_22

Slavery made the British Caribbean work and it did so largely within the institution of the plantation. British Caribbean plantation slavery was excessively brutal and exploitative but it was thoroughly modern and extremely productive and efficient.... Read More about Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean.

Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, and Rafael de Bivar Marquese. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (2022)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2022). Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, and Rafael de Bivar Marquese. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. American Historical Review, 127(4), 2031-2033. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac439

First paragraph: Slavery was under attack in the Americas during the nineteenth century just as it reached the plantation as a form of agricultural production. In this stunning book, Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the... Read More about Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, and Rafael de Bivar Marquese. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World.

Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African Company In Jamaica, 1674-1708 (2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2022). Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African Company In Jamaica, 1674-1708. In J. Black (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade, Volume II : Seventeenth Century (185-209). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362449

On 4 June 1677, the Morning Star, a ship belonging to the Royal African Company, moored at Port Royal, Jamaica. This chapter analyses the records of a major supplier of slaves, the Royal African Company, in Jamaica, between 1674 and 1708, years in wh... Read More about Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African Company In Jamaica, 1674-1708.

'The countrie continues sicklie': White mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780 (2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2022). 'The countrie continues sicklie': White mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780. In J. Black (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade, Volume II : Seventeenth Century (231-258). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362449

The tropical regions of the New World in the early modern era offered European migrants great wealth but were also demographically deadly. This paper presents hard data on white mortality in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jamaica and shows that... Read More about 'The countrie continues sicklie': White mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780.

'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution (2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. G. (2022). 'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution. In J. Black (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade : Volume III : Eighteenth Century (265-283). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362494

When eighteenth-century Britons contemplated their possessions in the West Indies what struck them most was the wealth of these small tropical islands. This chapter reports new estimates about how much wealth Europeans possessed in Jamaica on the eve... Read More about 'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution.

Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years (2022)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Games, A. (2022). Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years. Early American Studies, 20(4), 549-556. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2022.0018

A brief essay introducing a special issue devoted to exploring the scholarly legacies of Richard S. Dunn's Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English, 1624–1713, first published in 1972, upon the fiftieth anniversary of the work. Read More about Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years.

Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995: selective humanity in the Anglophone World (2022)
Book
Damousi, J., Burnard, T., & Lester, A. (Eds.). (2022). Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995: selective humanity in the Anglophone World. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries, from the antislavery campaign of the late eighteenth... Read More about Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995: selective humanity in the Anglophone World.

L'age de la plantation (2021)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2021). L'age de la plantation. In P. Ismard (Ed.), Les Mondes de L'Esclavage : Une histoire comparée (897-905). Paris: Editions du Seuil

The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834 (2021)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Coleman, D. (in press). The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834. Atlantic Studies: Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1899745

In 1775, on a tour of the West Indies, Henry Smeathman produced a sketch entitled Creole Delicacy or The Domestic Felicity of Africans in the West Indies (published 1788). The image depicts a flogging presided over by an elegantly dressed white woman... Read More about The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834.

Tropical Hospitality, British Masculinity, and Drink in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica (2021)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (in press). Tropical Hospitality, British Masculinity, and Drink in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica. The Historical journal, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X2100025X

White Jamaicans developed a drinking culture that drew on British precedents, but which mutated in the tropics into a form of sociability different from how sociability operated in mid-eighteenth Enlightenment Europe, where civility was a much-aspire... Read More about Tropical Hospitality, British Masculinity, and Drink in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica.

From "Little Better than Slaves" to "Cowskin Heroes": Poor White People in Jamaica, 1655-1782 (2021)
Book
Burnard, T. (2021). From "Little Better than Slaves" to "Cowskin Heroes": Poor White People in Jamaica, 1655-1782. Berlin: EB-Verlag

The principal axes along which seventeenth and eighteenth-century Jamaica divided were those of colour and of freedom. By the late eighteenth century, it became axiomatic that all Protestant whites were free and that all blacks were either enslaved o... Read More about From "Little Better than Slaves" to "Cowskin Heroes": Poor White People in Jamaica, 1655-1782.

Introduction: The management of enslaved people on Anglo-American plantations, 1700-1860 (2021)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (in press). Introduction: The management of enslaved people on Anglo-American plantations, 1700-1860. Journal of global slavery, 6(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00601010

© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2021 This essay introduces a special issue on the management of enslaved people working on plantations in the British Caribbean and the American South. It focuses on the relationships between commodification, control,... Read More about Introduction: The management of enslaved people on Anglo-American plantations, 1700-1860.

Security, taxation, and the imperial system in Jamaica, 1721-1782 (2020)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Graham, A. (2020). Security, taxation, and the imperial system in Jamaica, 1721-1782. Early American Studies, 18(4), 461-489. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2020.0012

White Jamaicans paid relatively high rates of taxation to support a powerful and assertive imperial state in schemes of settlement and security. They paid such taxes willingly because they were satisfied with what they got from the state. Furthermore... Read More about Security, taxation, and the imperial system in Jamaica, 1721-1782.

Slavery and the new history of capitalism (2020)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Riello, G. (2020). Slavery and the new history of capitalism. Journal of Global History, 15(2), 225-244. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022820000029

© 2020 Cambridge University Press. The new history of capitalism (NHC) places a great deal of emphasis on slavery as a crucial world institution. Slavery, it is alleged, arose out of, and underpinned, capitalist development. This article starts by sh... Read More about Slavery and the new history of capitalism.