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The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War (2024)
Book
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

This handbook contains 38 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 war -- Europe, South Asia, and the Amer... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War.

Settler Colonialism and early American History (2024)
Book Chapter
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/10.7765/9781526167347.00016

Agents 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.

Slave Registers and British Guiana: Life and Resistance on Slave Plantations (2023)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Coffey, J. (2023). Slave Registers and British Guiana: Life and Resistance on Slave Plantations. Histories of People and Place, 18(1-2), 43-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/28334299.2023.2283117

Slave registers are a major source for the study of British colonial slavery in its final two decades, yet they have been little used by historians. The article employs two case studies to show how these records allow us to reconstruct a collective p... Read More about Slave Registers and British Guiana: Life and Resistance on Slave Plantations.

The Other British Colonies (2023)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2023). The Other British Colonies. In W. Klooster (Ed.), The Enlightenment and the British Colonies (248-68). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567671

Britain 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.

Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000 (2023)
Thesis
Fleury, S. Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4311824

This study uses an eco-global criminological approach to understanding how children may migrate in the future as a result of environmental change, including climate change, and the human rights abuses they may face without adequate protections. It an... Read More about Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000.

'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution (2022)
Book Chapter
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). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362494

When 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 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). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362449

The 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.

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). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362449

On 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.

Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years (2022)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Games, A. (2022). Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years. Early American Studies, 20(4), 549-556. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2022.0018

A brief essay introducing a special issue devoted to exploring the scholarly legacies of Richard S. Dunn's Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English, 1624–1713, first published in 1972, upon the fiftieth anniversary of the work. Read More about Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years.

Slavery and empire (2021)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2022). Slavery and empire. In D. S. Doddington, & E. Dal Lago (Eds.), Writing the History of Slavery (59-80). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474285612.ch-3

Extract:
From ancient times, slavery has been associated with imperial expansion and the conquest of subject populations. All the great empires of antiquity, most of all the Roman Empire, practised slavery on a mass scale. Therefore, there is a larg... Read More about Slavery and empire.

L'age de la plantation (2021)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2021). L'age de la plantation. In P. Ismard (Ed.), Les Mondes de L'Esclavage : Une histoire comparée (897-905). Editions du Seuil

The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834 (2021)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Coleman, D. (in press). The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834. Atlantic Studies: Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1899745

In 1775, on a tour of the West Indies, Henry Smeathman produced a sketch entitled Creole Delicacy or The Domestic Felicity of Africans in the West Indies (published 1788). The image depicts a flogging presided over by an elegantly dressed white woman... Read More about The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834.

Tropical Hospitality, British Masculinity, and Drink in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica (2021)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (in press). Tropical Hospitality, British Masculinity, and Drink in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica. The Historical journal, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X2100025X

White Jamaicans developed a drinking culture that drew on British precedents, but which mutated in the tropics into a form of sociability different from how sociability operated in mid-eighteenth Enlightenment Europe, where civility was a much-aspire... Read More about Tropical Hospitality, British Masculinity, and Drink in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica.

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

Introduction: The management of enslaved people on Anglo-American plantations, 1700-1860 (2021)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (in press). Introduction: The management of enslaved people on Anglo-American plantations, 1700-1860. Journal of global slavery, 6(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00601010

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This essay introduces a special issue on the management of enslaved people working on plantations in the British Caribbean and the American South. It focuses on the relationships between commodification, control,... Read More about Introduction: The management of enslaved people on Anglo-American plantations, 1700-1860.