All Outputs (5)

Writing the History of Global Slavery (2023)
Book
Burnard, T. (2023). Writing the History of Global Slavery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009406284

This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum American slavery being normative should be replaced a global slavery that is less American and more global. It argues that we can unde... Read More about Writing the History of Global Slavery.

The Other British Colonies (2023)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2023). The Other British Colonies. In W. Klooster (Ed.), The Enlightenment and the British Colonies (248-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567671

Britain had a substantial Atlantic empire during the era of the Atlantic Revolutions. Only some of their Atlantic colonies joined in the colonial rebellion that led to the creation of the United States. The end of the American Revolution signaled a n... Read More about The Other British Colonies.

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. (2024). Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica. Enterprise & society, 25(2), 536-561. 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.