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Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica (2023)
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Burnard, T., & Haggerty, S. (in press). Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica. Enterprise & society, https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2023.2

Recent work on white women in Jamaica has shown that they were active participants in Jamaica’s slave economy. This article adds to this recent literature through an innovative use of social network analysis (SNA) to examine the credit networks in wh... Read More about Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica.

Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, and Rafael de Bivar Marquese. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (2022)
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Burnard, T. (2022). Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, and Rafael de Bivar Marquese. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. American Historical Review, 127(4), 2031-2033. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac439

First paragraph: Slavery was under attack in the Americas during the nineteenth century just as it reached the plantation as a form of agricultural production. In this stunning book, Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the... Read More about Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, and Rafael de Bivar Marquese. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World.

Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years (2022)
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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.

The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834 (2021)
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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)
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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.

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.

Sir John Gladstone and the Debate over the Amelioration of Slavery in the British West Indies in the 1820s (2018)
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Burnard, T., & Candlin, K. (2018). Sir John Gladstone and the Debate over the Amelioration of Slavery in the British West Indies in the 1820s. Journal of British Studies, 57(4), 760-782. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2018.115

© 2018 The North American Conference on British Studies. Sir John Gladstone made a fortune as a Demerara sugar-planter and a key supporter of the British policy of amelioration in which slavery would be improved by making it more humane. Unlike resid... Read More about Sir John Gladstone and the Debate over the Amelioration of Slavery in the British West Indies in the 1820s.

Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica (2018)
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Burnard, T., Panza, L., & Williamson, J. (2019). Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica. Explorations in Economic History, 71, 55-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2018.09.002

© 2018 This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of colonial Jamaican real incomes and income inequality. We collect local prices to construct cost of living and purchasing power parity indicators. The latter lowers Jamaica's GDP per capi... Read More about Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica.

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.

Harvest years? Reconfigurations of empire in Jamaica, 1756-1807 (2012)
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Burnard, T. (2012). Harvest years? Reconfigurations of empire in Jamaica, 1756-1807. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40(4), 533-555. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2012.724234

At the end of the Seven Years' War, Jamaican planters were in an extremely strong position within the British Empire. Immensely wealthy, geopolitically important and constitutionally assertive, Jamaican planters used their strong position to win a se... Read More about Harvest years? Reconfigurations of empire in Jamaica, 1756-1807.

Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A new look at comparative urbanization in plantation colonial British America (2012)
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Burnard, T., & Hart, E. (2013). Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A new look at comparative urbanization in plantation colonial British America. Journal of Urban History, 39(2), 214-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144211435125

Customarily, studies of urbanization in early British America have concentrated on its northern mainland seaports. This article moves beyond a thirteen colonies perspective to define and explore a Greater Caribbean urban world, with Charleston, South... Read More about Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A new look at comparative urbanization in plantation colonial British America.

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.

Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism (2011)
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Burnard, T. (2011). Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism. Slavery & Abolition, 32(2), 185-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2011.568231

This essay focuses on the competing identities that came to be associated with British West Indians during the foundational period of British abolitionism. The essay evaluates the competing images of the West Indian planter class, paying particular a... Read More about Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism.

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.