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At the limits of cultural heritage rights? The Glasgow Bajuni Campaign and the UK immigration system: a case study (2018)
Journal Article
Hill, E. C., Craith, M. N., & Clopot, C. (2018). At the limits of cultural heritage rights? The Glasgow Bajuni Campaign and the UK immigration system: a case study. International Journal of Cultural Property, 25(1), 35-58. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739118000024

In 2003, the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO ICH Convention) formalized provision for forms of heritage not solely rooted in the material world. This expanded the scope and accessibility of cultural heritage ri... Read More about At the limits of cultural heritage rights? The Glasgow Bajuni Campaign and the UK immigration system: a case study.

A voice for slaves: The office of the fiscal in berbice and the beginning of protection in the british empire, 1819–1834 (2018)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2018). A voice for slaves: The office of the fiscal in berbice and the beginning of protection in the british empire, 1819–1834. Pacific Historical Review, 87(1), 30-53. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2018.87.1.30

© 2018 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association. All rights reserved. This article examines the office of the Fiscal in Berbice (later British Guiana) between 1819 and 1834—a period encompassing amelioration and emancipation. It l... Read More about A voice for slaves: The office of the fiscal in berbice and the beginning of protection in the british empire, 1819–1834.

Never-married women and credit in early modern England (2018)
Book Chapter
Spicksley, J. M. (2018). Never-married women and credit in early modern England. In Women and credit in pre-industrial Europe (227-252). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.eer-eb.5.115755

This article begins with a discussion of the credit activities of women in early modern England in general, before moving to look more specifically at those of never-married women, through examination of a sample of 323 never-married women's probate... Read More about Never-married women and credit in early modern England.

Ambiguous attachments and industrious nostalgias: heritage narratives of Russian Old Believers in Romania (2017)
Journal Article
Clopot, C. (2017). Ambiguous attachments and industrious nostalgias: heritage narratives of Russian Old Believers in Romania. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 26(2), 31-51. https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2017.260204

This article questions notions of belonging in the case of displaced communities’ descendants and discusses such groups’ efforts to preserve their heritage. It examines the instrumental use of nostalgia in heritage discourses that drive preservation... Read More about Ambiguous attachments and industrious nostalgias: heritage narratives of Russian Old Believers in Romania.

Contemporary slavery and its definition in law (2017)
Book Chapter
Allain, J. (2017). Contemporary slavery and its definition in law. In A. Bunting, & J. Quirk (Eds.), Contemporary slavery: Popular rhetoric and political practice (36-66). UBC Press

Decolonisation as the source of the concepts of Jus Cogens and Obligations Erga Omnes (2017)
Book Chapter
Allain, J. (2017). Decolonisation as the source of the concepts of Jus Cogens and Obligations Erga Omnes. In Z. Yihdego, M. Geboye Desta, & F. Merso (Eds.), Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law 2016 (35-59). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55898-1_3

The scholarly consensus is that jus cogens emerged from the work of the UN International Law Commission on invalidation of treaties, and the International Court of Justice developed the concept of obligations erga omnes in its wake. This study cha... Read More about Decolonisation as the source of the concepts of Jus Cogens and Obligations Erga Omnes.

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016 (2017)
Book
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 Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century (2017)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., Goodfriend, J., Van Zandt, C., Frijhoff, W., & Klooster, W. (2017). The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century. Journal of early American history, 7(1), 33-80. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00701004

© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2017. This book forum focuses on Wim Klooster's The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2016). In his book, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch bui... Read More about The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century.

Weaving the past in a fabric: Old Believers' traditional costume (2016)
Journal Article
Clopot, C. (2016). Weaving the past in a fabric: Old Believers' traditional costume. Folklore : Electronic Journal of Folklore, 66, 115-132. https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2016.66.clopot

© 2016, FB and Media Group of Estonian Literary Museum. All rights reserved. Costume plays an important part in expressing ethnic identity. This article develops an analysis of the Old Believers’ traditional costume in its current usage. To different... Read More about Weaving the past in a fabric: Old Believers' traditional costume.

From Liverpool to Mount Vernon : Edward Rushton in transatlantic perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Oldfield, J. R. (2016). From Liverpool to Mount Vernon : Edward Rushton in transatlantic perspective. Questione Romantica, 7(1-2),

Among historians of British anti-slavery Edward Rushton is probably best known for his West-Indian Eclogues, which established his reputation as a hard-line anti-slavery activist. Perhaps less well known is his second abolitionist publication, his Ex... Read More about From Liverpool to Mount Vernon : Edward Rushton in transatlantic perspective.

The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (2016)
Book
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.

Forced marriage, slavery, and plural legal systems: An African example (2016)
Journal Article
Sarich, J., Olivier, M., & Bales, K. (2016). Forced marriage, slavery, and plural legal systems: An African example. Human rights quarterly, 38(2), 450-476. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2016.0030

Slavery, long abolished under international law, left a devastating imprint on Africa. However, enslavement of women through forced marriages remains a common phenomenon in many African states. These African states share the common feature of legal p... Read More about Forced marriage, slavery, and plural legal systems: An African example.