LIBROS DEL AUTOR: trevor burnard

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  • Writing the History of Global Slavery
    Trevor Burnard
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  • Writing Early America
    Trevor Burnard
    To join a conversation, one must know what is being said. Writing Early America is a field report on the current state of the historiography on the colonial era-from the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 to the end of the American Revolution around 1784.    Based on a close reading of nearly four hundred articles in leading journals published over the past decade, Trevor Bu...
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  • Britain in the Wider World
    Trevor Burnard
    Britain in the Wider World traces the remarkable transformation of Britain between 1603 and 1800 as it developed into a world power. At the accession of James VI and I to the throne of England in 1603, the kingdoms of England/Wales, Scotland and Ireland were united only by having a monarch in common. They had little presence in the world and were fraught with violence. Two cent...
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  • Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire
    Trevor Burnard
    Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain’s largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica’s vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood.This...
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  • Creole Gentlemen
    Trevor Burnard
    Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland, Burnard traces the development of this elite from a hard-living, profit-driven merchant-planter class in the seventeenth century to a more genteel class of plantation owners in the eighteenth century. This study innovatively compares these men to their counterparts elsewhere in the British Empire, ...
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    82,52 €