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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/10.4324/9781315817866

Only 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/9780520279278.003.0007

This 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.