Teaching in Europe and researching in the United States
(2014)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., Nagler, J., Newman, S., & Živojinović, D. (2014). Teaching in Europe and researching in the United States. American Historical Review, 119(3), 771-779. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.3.771
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Slavery and the causes of the American revolution in plantation British America (2014)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2014). Slavery and the causes of the American revolution in plantation British America. In A. Shankman (Ed.), The World of the Revolutionary American Republic : Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent (54-76). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315817866Only a minority of British American colonies joined Massachusetts in revolt against Britain in July 1776. Depending on how you count colonies, there were either 27 or 31 colonies in British America when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Indep... Read More about Slavery and the causes of the American revolution in plantation British America.
Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe (2014)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T., & Vidal, C. (2014). Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe. In N. Barreyre, M. Heale, S. Tuck, & C. Vidal (Eds.), Historians across borders : writing American history in a global age (141-162). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520279278.003.0007This chapter examines early American history (often known as Atlantic history, a recently burgeoning field) and its multiple reconfigurations from the 1960s in order to analyze the impact of location on the conceptualization of historical frameworks.... Read More about Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe.
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). University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208139Copyright © 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). University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813044378.003.0007This 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). Voltaire Foundation for Enlightenment Studies
Harvest years? Reconfigurations of empire in Jamaica, 1756-1807 (2012)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2012). Harvest years? Reconfigurations of empire in Jamaica, 1756-1807. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40(4), 533-555. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2012.724234At the end of the Seven Years' War, Jamaican planters were in an extremely strong position within the British Empire. Immensely wealthy, geopolitically important and constitutionally assertive, Jamaican planters used their strong position to win a se... Read More about Harvest years? Reconfigurations of empire in Jamaica, 1756-1807.
Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A new look at comparative urbanization in plantation colonial British America (2012)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Hart, E. (2013). Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A new look at comparative urbanization in plantation colonial British America. Journal of Urban History, 39(2), 214-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144211435125Customarily, studies of urbanization in early British America have concentrated on its northern mainland seaports. This article moves beyond a thirteen colonies perspective to define and explore a Greater Caribbean urban world, with Charleston, South... Read More about Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A new look at comparative urbanization in plantation colonial British America.
Caribbean slavery, British anti-slavery, and the cultural politics of venereal disease (2012)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Follett, R. (2012). Caribbean slavery, British anti-slavery, and the cultural politics of venereal disease. The Historical journal, 55(2), 427-451. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X11000513Venereal disease was commonplace among free and enslaved populations in colonial Caribbean societies. This article considers how contemporaries (both in the empire and metropole) viewed venereal infection and how they associated it with gendered noti... Read More about Caribbean slavery, British anti-slavery, and the cultural politics of venereal disease.
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/10.1080/14788810.2012.636993The 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.69.1.0051Mercantilism 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.
From periphery to periphery: The Pennants' Jamaican plantations and industrialisation in North Wales, 1771-1812 (2011)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2011). From periphery to periphery: The Pennants' Jamaican plantations and industrialisation in North Wales, 1771-1812. In H. Bowen (Ed.), Wales and the British Overseas Empire : Interactions and Influences, 1650-1830 (114-142). Manchester University Press
A response by Trevor Burnard (2011)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2011). A response by Trevor Burnard. Journal of American Studies, 45(3), 437-441. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875811000508
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.2011.568231This 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/crq068Three 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.
The Routledge history of slavery (2010)
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Heuman, G., & Burnard, T. (Eds.). (2010). The Routledge history of slavery. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203840573© 2011 Gad Heuman and Trevor Burnard. All rights reserved. The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock... Read More about The Routledge history of slavery.
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 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/10.4324/9780203949054-21One 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). 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.
Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African company in Jamaica, 1674-1708 (1996)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (1996). Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African company in Jamaica, 1674-1708. Slavery & Abolition, 17(2), 68-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440399608575185