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Single women and credit – what you didn’t know about interest (2015)
Other
Spicksley, J. (2015). Single women and credit – what you didn’t know about interest

After the trawl: Memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water fishing industry (2015)
Journal Article
Byrne, J. (2015). After the trawl: Memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water fishing industry. International Journal of Maritime History, 27(4), 816-822. https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871415610281

© International Maritime Economic History Association. This paper offers an overview of Byrne's recent research into the economic, social, spatial and cultural consequences of the decline of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery after the 1976 Cod Wars.... Read More about After the trawl: Memory and afterlife in the wake of Hull's distant-water fishing industry.

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

Sexe, esclavage et biopolitique: approche comparée (2015)
Book Chapter
Spicksley, J., & Richardson, D. (2015). Sexe, esclavage et biopolitique: approche comparée. In M. Spensky (Ed.), Le contrôle du corps des femmes dans les Empires coloniaux: Empires, genre et biopolitiques (81-106). Paris: Karthala

Contested enslavement: The Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800 (2015)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J. (2015). Contested enslavement: The Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800. Itinerario, 39(2), 247-275. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115315000467

The Portuguese were keen slave traders on the west central coast of Africa in the early modern period, but governors in Angola appear to have been increasingly unhappy about certain aspects of enslavement in relation to debt, and in particular that o... Read More about Contested enslavement: The Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800.

Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor (2015)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J. M. (2015). Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor. Gender and history, 27(2), 263-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12125

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In the transition from medieval notions of usury to modern notions of interest, single women appear to have enjoyed a special role.While probate documents confirm that an increasing number were engaged in interest-bear... Read More about Women, ‘usury’ and credit in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor.

Afterword (2015)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2015). Afterword. In J. Metcalf, & C. Spaulding (Eds.), African American Culture and Society After Rodney King: Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism' (303-307). Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565989

Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s. In A. McCarthy (Ed.), Ireland in the World Comparative, Transnational, and Personal Perspectives (15-33). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315749020

This chapter characterises the shifting relationship between Irish and Welsh nationalists during the mid-twentieth century and then outlines the cooperative history of several significant Irish and Welsh organisations. The precursor was the Irish Ant... Read More about Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s.

Slaves and Slavery, History of (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Slaves and Slavery, History of. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (54-58). (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.62025-1

Slavery has existed for millennia. It is both a status - an inferior person with no rights in a society - and a condition, a kind of humanity which was accorded fewer rights than other forms of humanity. A slave was the quintessential outsider. Most... Read More about Slaves and Slavery, History of.

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2015)
Book
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.

Colonies and colonization (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Colonies and colonization. In J. C. Miller, V. Brown, J. Cañizares-Esguerra, L. Dubois, & K. Ordahl Kupperman (Eds.), The Princeton companion to Atlantic history (107-108). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852215

Plantation societies (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Plantation societies. In J. H. Bentley, S. Subrahmanyam, & M. E. Wiesner-Hanks (Eds.), The Cambridge World History Vol.6 The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 2: Patterns of Change (263-282). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139022460.012

Few institutions define world history in the early modern era as completely as the plantation complex. Initiated in Europe; realised in the tropical and semi-tropical regions of the Americas; involving both Asia as a source of capital and Asians as l... Read More about Plantation societies.