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The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War (2024)
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Burnard, T., Hart, E., & Houllemare, M. (Eds.). (2024). The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197622605.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years’ War contains thirty-eight essays that provide up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years’ War (1756–1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War.

Republic and Empire : Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence [due16/9/25] (2024)
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Burnard, T., & O'Shaughnessy, A. J. (in press). Republic and Empire : Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence [due16/9/25]. Yale University Press

At the time of the American Revolution (1765–83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland, and Scotland. The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the total number of provinc... Read More about Republic and Empire : Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence [due16/9/25].

From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents (2023)
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Heys, A. (2023). From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents. Oxford University Press

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From Conflict to Modern Slavery considers the lives of people after they have fled conflict and arrived in the UK. The book draws on insights from interviews with those who have experienced the UK immigration system, and observations ar... Read More about From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents.

Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution (2022)
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Burnard, T. (in press). Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution. 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.

From "Little Better than Slaves" to "Cowskin Heroes": Poor White People in Jamaica, 1655-1782 (2021)
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Burnard, T. (2021). From "Little Better than Slaves" to "Cowskin Heroes": Poor White People in Jamaica, 1655-1782. EB-Verlag

The principal axes along which seventeenth and eighteenth-century Jamaica divided were those of colour and of freedom. By the late eighteenth century, it became axiomatic that all Protestant whites were free and that all blacks were either enslaved o... Read More about From "Little Better than Slaves" to "Cowskin Heroes": Poor White People in Jamaica, 1655-1782.

The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865 (2020)
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Oldfield, J. (2020). The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865. Liverpool University Press

Monograph on international anti-slavery during the mid-nineteenth century. This ground-breaking book deals with two inter-related themes, opinion-building and transatlanticism, and includes chapters on abolitionist politics, songs, agent and popular... Read More about The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865.

Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020)
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Burnard, T. (2020). Jamaica in the Age of Revolution. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press)

Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in British America. White Jamaican slaveowners presided over a highly productive economic system, a pr... Read More about Jamaica in the Age of Revolution.

Britain in the wider world: 1603-1800 (2019)
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Burnard, T. (2020). Britain in the wider world: 1603-1800. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429457524

Britain in the Wider World traces the remarkable transformation of Britain between 1603 and 1800 as it developed into a world power. At the accession of James VI and I to the throne of England in 1603, the kingdoms of England/Wales, Scotland and Irel... Read More about Britain in the wider world: 1603-1800.

Heritage and festivals in Europe: Performing identities (2019)
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Kockel, U., Clopot, C., Tjarve, B., & Craith, M. N. (Eds.). (2019). Heritage and festivals in Europe: Performing identities. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429202964

© 2020 selection and editorial matter, Ullrich Kockel, Cristina Clopot, Baiba Tjarve and Máiréad Nic Craith. Heritage and Festivals in Europe critically investigates the purpose, reach and effects of heritage festivals. Providing a comprehensive and... Read More about Heritage and festivals in Europe: Performing identities.

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016 (2017)
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Eltis, D., Engerman, S. L., Drescher, S., & Richardson, D. (2017). D. Eltis, S. Engerman, S. Drescher, & D. Richardson (Eds.). The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139046176

© Cambridge University Press 2017. Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. Th... Read More about The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016.

The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (2016)
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Burnard, T., & Garrigus, J. (2016). The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293012

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by plan... Read More about The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica.

Planters, Merchants and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 (2015)
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Burnard, T. (2015). Planters, Merchants and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820. University of Chicago Press

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2015)
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Eltis, D., & Richardson, D. (2015). Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Yale University Press

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-... Read More about Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867 (2014)
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Richardson, D. (2014). D. Richardson, & F. Ribeiro da Silva (Eds.). Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004280588

Studies of the South Atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections between Angola and Brazil, and specifically on the flows of enslaved Africans from Luanda and the relations between Portuguese-Brazilian traders and other agents and their... Read More about Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867.

The Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford, 1638-1648 (2012)
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(2012). J. M. Spicksley (Ed.), The Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford, 1638-1648. British Academy. https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780197264324.book.1

Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820 (2011)
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Oldfield, J. R. (2011). Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139344272

Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution offers a fresh exploration of anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It challenges traditional perceptions of early anti-slavery activity as an entirely parochia... Read More about Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820.

The Routledge history of slavery (2010)
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Heuman, G., & Burnard, T. (Eds.). (2010). The Routledge history of slavery. 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.

The slave next door: human trafficking and slavery in America today (2010)
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Soodalter, R., & Bales, K. (2010). The slave next door: human trafficking and slavery in America today. University of California Press

In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In "The Slave Next Door" we find that slaves ar... Read More about The slave next door: human trafficking and slavery in America today.

Extending the frontiers: Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database (2008)
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Richardson, D., & Eltis, D. (Eds.). (2008). Extending the frontiers: Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300134360.001.0001

Since 1999, intensive research efforts have vastly increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A huge database of slave trade voyages from Columbus' era to the mid-nineteenth century is now available on an... Read More about Extending the frontiers: Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database.

'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery (2007)
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Oldfield, J. (2007). 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery. Manchester University Press

How should we as Britons remember transatlantic slavery? How has slavery been remembered in the past? 'Chords of freedom' sets out to answer these questions and, in doing so, traces the way in which British transatlantic slavery has been absorbed int... Read More about 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery.