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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.

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.

British West Indies and Bermuda (2010)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2010). British West Indies and Bermuda. In R. L. Paquette, & M. M. Smith (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (134-153). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227990.013.0007

© the various contributors 2010. All rights reserved. This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in the British West Indies and Bermuda. The British West Indies differed from other places colonized by the British in... Read More about British West Indies and Bermuda.

Theater of terror : Domestic violence in Thomas Thistlewood’s Jamaica, 1750-1786 (2000)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2000). Theater of terror : Domestic violence in Thomas Thistlewood’s Jamaica, 1750-1786. In C. Daniels, & M. V. Kennedy (Eds.), Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America (237-253). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203949054-21

One and a half months after arriving in Jamaica, John Thistlewood, a young Englishman residing with his uncle, Thomas, an overseer on a Westmoreland sugar plantation, had a nasty shock. On April 15,1764, John " Hard a great Noise�? and went to invest... Read More about Theater of terror : Domestic violence in Thomas Thistlewood’s Jamaica, 1750-1786.

Theater of terror : Domestic violence in thomas thistlewood’s jamaica, 1750-1786 (1999)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (1999). Theater of terror : Domestic violence in thomas thistlewood’s jamaica, 1750-1786. In C. Daniels, & M. V. Kennedy (Eds.), Over the threshold : intimate violence in early America (237-253). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203949054

© 1999 by Routledge. One and a half months after arriving in Jamaica, John Thistlewood, a young Englishman residing with his uncle, Thomas, an overseer on a Westmoreland sugar plantation, had a nasty shock. On April 15,1764, John " Hard a great Noise... Read More about Theater of terror : Domestic violence in thomas thistlewood’s jamaica, 1750-1786.