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Introduction: The management of enslaved people on Anglo-American plantations, 1700-1860 (2021)
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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

© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2021 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.

Security, taxation, and the imperial system in Jamaica, 1721-1782 (2020)
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Burnard, T., & Graham, A. (2020). Security, taxation, and the imperial system in Jamaica, 1721-1782. Early American Studies, 18(4), 461-489. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2020.0012

White Jamaicans paid relatively high rates of taxation to support a powerful and assertive imperial state in schemes of settlement and security. They paid such taxes willingly because they were satisfied with what they got from the state. Furthermore... Read More about Security, taxation, and the imperial system in Jamaica, 1721-1782.

Slavery and the new history of capitalism (2020)
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Burnard, T., & Riello, G. (2020). Slavery and the new history of capitalism. Journal of Global History, 15(2), 225-244. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022820000029

© 2020 Cambridge University Press. The new history of capitalism (NHC) places a great deal of emphasis on slavery as a crucial world institution. Slavery, it is alleged, arose out of, and underpinned, capitalist development. This article starts by sh... Read More about Slavery and the new history of capitalism.

Slaves and Slavery in Kingston, 1770-1815 (2020)
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Burnard, T. (2020). Slaves and Slavery in Kingston, 1770-1815. International Review of Social History, 65(S28), 39-65. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859020000073

© 2020 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis. Historians have mostly ignored Kingston and its enslaved population, despite it being the fourth largest town in the British Atlantic before the American Revolution and the town with the larg... Read More about Slaves and Slavery in Kingston, 1770-1815.

A voice for slaves: The office of the fiscal in berbice and the beginning of protection in the british empire, 1819–1834 (2018)
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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.

The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century (2017)
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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.

Caribbean slavery, British anti-slavery, and the cultural politics of venereal disease (2012)
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Burnard, T., & Follett, R. (2012). Caribbean slavery, British anti-slavery, and the cultural politics of venereal disease. The Historical journal, 55(2), 427-451. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X11000513

Venereal disease was commonplace among free and enslaved populations in colonial Caribbean societies. This article considers how contemporaries (both in the empire and metropole) viewed venereal infection and how they associated it with gendered noti... Read More about Caribbean slavery, British anti-slavery, and the cultural politics of venereal disease.

Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674-1784 (2012)
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Burnard, T. (2012). Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674-1784. Atlantic Studies: Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives, 9(1), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2012.636993

The decline of West Indian planters in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was both remarkable and, to an extent, inexplicable outside the context of a determined abolitionist onslaught against them. During the eighteenth century, plan... Read More about Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674-1784.

Making a whig empire work: Transatlantic politics and the imperial economy in Britain and British America (2012)
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Burnard, T. (2012). Making a whig empire work: Transatlantic politics and the imperial economy in Britain and British America. William and Mary Quarterly, 69(1), 51-56. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.69.1.0051

Mercantilism has been an important organizing concept not only for Atlantic and early American history but for the disciplines of sociology, economics, and political science as well. What do scholars mean by mercantilism? This article demonstrates th... Read More about Making a whig empire work: Transatlantic politics and the imperial economy in Britain and British America.

The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800 (2011)
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Burnard, T., & Potofsky, A. (2011). The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800. French History, 25(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crq068

Three of the articles in this special issue (Covo, Forestier and Mandelblatt) were presented at a workshop devoted to the political economy of the French Caribbean and the French Atlantic, held at the University of Warwick on 30 November 2009. Thanks... Read More about The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800.