Planters, Merchants and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820
(2015)
Book
Burnard, T. (2015). Planters, Merchants and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820. University of Chicago Press
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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/10.4324/9781315749020This 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/B978-0-08-097086-8.62025-1Slavery 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.
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/CBO9781139022460.012Few 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.