All Outputs (3)

Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of modernity (2013)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2016). Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of modernity. In J. Cañizares-Esguerra, M. D. Childs, & J. Sidbury (Eds.), The Black urban Atlantic in the age of the slave trade : the early modern Americas (122-144). Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208139

Copyright © 2013 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur is one of the key delineators of the American national character, a man whose Letters from an American Farmer has a canonical status in early Ame... Read More about Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of modernity.

Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South (2013)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2013). Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South. In B. Ward, M. Bone, & W. A. Link (Eds.), The American South and the Atlantic world (129-148). Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813044378.003.0007

This historiographical chapter argues that, for all its many achievements, Atlantic History’s early modern fixation has exacerbated an unhelpful division between American colonial historians, who have been increasingly committed to Atlanto-centric pe... Read More about Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South.

A compound mongrel mixture': Racially coded humor, satire, and the denigration of white Creoles in the British Empire, 1784-1834 (2013)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2013). A compound mongrel mixture': Racially coded humor, satire, and the denigration of white Creoles in the British Empire, 1784-1834. In E. C. Mansfield, & K. Malone (Eds.), Seeing satire in the eighteenth century (149-165). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation for Enlightenment Studies