Early Modern Atlantic Slavery and Labor Systems
(2024)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2024). Early Modern Atlantic Slavery and Labor Systems. In T. Adam (Ed.), Yearbook of Transnational History (19-42). Rowman & Littlefield
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Settler Colonialism and early American History (2024)
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Burnard, T., & Delahaye, A. (2024). Settler Colonialism and early American History. In E. Peyrol-Kleiber, L. Roper, B. Van Ruymbeke, & A. Delahaye (Eds.), Agents of European Overseas Empires: Private Colonisers, 1450-1800 (153-178). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526167347.00016Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the... Read More about Settler Colonialism and early American History.
The Other British Colonies (2023)
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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/10.1017/9781108567671Britain 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.
Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African Company In Jamaica, 1674-1708 (2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2022). Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African Company In Jamaica, 1674-1708. In J. Black (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade, Volume II : Seventeenth Century (185-209). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362449On 4 June 1677, the Morning Star, a ship belonging to the Royal African Company, moored at Port Royal, Jamaica. This chapter analyses the records of a major supplier of slaves, the Royal African Company, in Jamaica, between 1674 and 1708, years in wh... Read More about Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African Company In Jamaica, 1674-1708.
'The countrie continues sicklie': White mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780 (2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2022). 'The countrie continues sicklie': White mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780. In J. Black (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade, Volume II : Seventeenth Century (231-258). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362449The tropical regions of the New World in the early modern era offered European migrants great wealth but were also demographically deadly. This paper presents hard data on white mortality in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jamaica and shows that... Read More about 'The countrie continues sicklie': White mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780.
'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution (2022)
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Burnard, T. G. (2022). 'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution. In J. Black (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade : Volume III : Eighteenth Century (265-283). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362494When eighteenth-century Britons contemplated their possessions in the West Indies what struck them most was the wealth of these small tropical islands. This chapter reports new estimates about how much wealth Europeans possessed in Jamaica on the eve... Read More about 'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution.
The Demise of the Royal African Compay and Changes in Slave Sales in Jamaica in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1698-1720 (2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2022). The Demise of the Royal African Compay and Changes in Slave Sales in Jamaica in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1698-1720. In M. Michaud, E. Sinardet, & B. Van Ruymbeke (Eds.), Ici, là-bas, ailleurs : Le transnationalisme aux Amériques (XVIe-XIXe siècles) (71-84). Rennes: Les perseides
L'age de la plantation (2021)
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Burnard, T. (2021). L'age de la plantation. In P. Ismard (Ed.), Les Mondes de L'Esclavage : Une histoire comparée (897-905). Paris: Editions du Seuil
Dominant minorities: Irish and Jamaican white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s (2021)
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Burnard, T. (2021). Dominant minorities: Irish and Jamaican white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s. In P. Griffin, & F. D. Cogliano (Eds.), Ireland and America : Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty (126-149)
Antislavery Opinion Building (2020)
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Oldfield, J. (2020). Antislavery Opinion Building. In K. Bales, & Z. Trodd (Eds.), The Antislavery Usable Past: History’s Lessons for How We End Slavery Today (160-76). University of Nottingham Rights Lab
How Definitions of ‘Child Soldiers’ Exclude Girls from Demobilisation Efforts (2020)
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Kidd, A., & Dunhill, A. (2020). How Definitions of ‘Child Soldiers’ Exclude Girls from Demobilisation Efforts. In J. Muraszkiewicz, T. Fenton, & H. Watson (Eds.), Human Trafficking in Conflict - Context, Causes and the Military (183-197). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40838-1Child soldiers meet the Palermo Protocol’s definition of ‘trafficking in persons’. They are any person under 18, used in any capacity by armed forces or groups; this includes combatants, but also ancillary roles such as cooks, ‘wives’ and guards. Ho... Read More about How Definitions of ‘Child Soldiers’ Exclude Girls from Demobilisation Efforts.
Unavoidable Exploitation? Conflict, Agency and Human Trafficking (2020)
Book Chapter
Kidd, A. (2020). Unavoidable Exploitation? Conflict, Agency and Human Trafficking. In J. Muraszkiewicz, T. Fenton, & H. Watson (Eds.), Human Trafficking in Conflict - Context, Causes and the Military (32-44). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40838-1This chapter considers the vulnerabilities generated specifically by conflict that put people at risk of human trafficking. A review of existing literature summarises some of the most common situations of human trafficking in the context of conflict.... Read More about Unavoidable Exploitation? Conflict, Agency and Human Trafficking.
The development of child trafficking within international law: A socio-legal and archival analysis (2019)
Book Chapter
Faulkner, E. A. (2019). The development of child trafficking within international law: A socio-legal and archival analysis. In R. Deplano (Ed.), Pluralising international legal scholarship: the promise and perils of non-doctrinal research methods (104-126). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976374.00011Human trafficking has appeared in numerous international instruments since the early twentieth century, and predates the formation of the current international legal system.1 This chapter seeks to demonstrate the emergence of child trafficking within... Read More about The development of child trafficking within international law: A socio-legal and archival analysis.
Spinsters with land in early modern England: inheritance, possession and use (2019)
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Spicksley, J. (2019). Spinsters with land in early modern England: inheritance, possession and use. In A. L. Capern, B. McDonagh, & J. Aston (Eds.), Women and the Land 1500-1900 (51-76). Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787445208.003This chapter offers an analysis of the land that was held by spinsters in England from the mid-sixteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Although our knowledge of landholding by women is increasing, there is little published work on the amount... Read More about Spinsters with land in early modern England: inheritance, possession and use.
‘Work in countryside, cities and towns’ (2019)
Book Chapter
Spicksley, J. (2019). ‘Work in countryside, cities and towns’. In A. L. Capern (Ed.), The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe (135-180). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355783This chapter focuses on Western Europe, which, as an area, probably had the greatest number of commonalities throughout the period under review. Perhaps as significantly for women, early-modern Europe witnessed a huge expansion in provision for, and... Read More about ‘Work in countryside, cities and towns’.
Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique (2019)
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Faulkner, E. A. (2019). Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique. In J. Winterdyk, & J. Jones (Eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking (79-95). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63058-8_113© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG 2020. All rights reserved. The trafficking of children has received extensive attention from both academic and political arenas in recent years, yet this growing phenome... Read More about Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique.
Heritages, identities and Europe: Exploring cultural forms and expressions (2019)
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Kockel, U., Craith, M. N., Clopot, C., & Tjarve, B. (2019). Heritages, identities and Europe: Exploring cultural forms and expressions. In U. Kockel, C. Clopot, B. Tjarve, & M. Nic Craith (Eds.), Heritage and Festivals in Europe: Performing Identities (1-17). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429202964-1Traditional arts practices and festivals have attracted increasing and diverse attention in the European context since policymakers discovered ‘culture’ as a resource in the 1980s. The promotion of local and regional ‘heritage’ as a resource especial... Read More about Heritages, identities and Europe: Exploring cultural forms and expressions.
European Capitals of Culture: Discourses of Europeanness in the cases of Valletta, Plovdiv and Galway (2019)
Book Chapter
Clopot, C., & Strani, K. (2019). European Capitals of Culture: Discourses of Europeanness in the cases of Valletta, Plovdiv and Galway. In U. Kockel, C. Clopot, B. Tjarve, & M. {Nic Craith} (Eds.), Heritage and Festivals in Europe: Performing Identities. Routledge
The construction of belonging and otherness in heritage events (2019)
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Clopot, C., & McCullagh, C. (2019). The construction of belonging and otherness in heritage events. In U. Kockel, C. Clopot, B. Tjarve, & M. Nic Craith (Eds.), Heritage and Festivals in Europe: Performing Identities (47-62). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429202964-4© 2020 selection and editorial matter, Ullrich Kockel, Cristina Clopot, Baiba Tjarve and Máiréad Nic Craith. This chapter focuses on concepts of identity-work that reflect a binary process of expressing self-identification, and thus belonging, while... Read More about The construction of belonging and otherness in heritage events.
Conceptualizing the exploitation of human trafficking (2018)
Book Chapter
Allain, J. (2018). Conceptualizing the exploitation of human trafficking. In The SAGE handbook of human trafficking and modern day slavery. SAGE Publications