In the frontier conditions of the seventeenth century where mortality rates were extraordinarily high, marriage to a widow was a common route to wealth. The marriage of Henrietta Maria Bennett, the widow of the prominent merchant and ...
... 95, 96, 158, 171, 199 Beckford, Peter, II, 94, 95 Beckford, Thomas, 94 Beckford, William, 158–59, 185, 186, 248 Beckford, William, II, 134 Beckles, Hilary, 37 Beeston, William, 51 Benin, 169, 171 Bennett, George, 94 Bennett, George, ...
Bennett 2000 does the same, in a smaller compass, for African diasporas. Grasso and Wulf 2008 and Burnard 2007 attempt to square nationalism and historians' renewed focus on imperialism in the 18th-century Atlantic world.
... 126, 213 Beckles, Hilary, 231 Bell, Dr. Samuel, 242 Bellamy, Mr., 81 Belle Isle estate, 43 Bennett, Elizabeth, 165 Bennett, Sarah, 185, 236 Berlin, Ira, 177 Black Act (1723), 268 Blake, Hannah, 71, 81, 109, 114, 219 Blake, Nicholas, ...
... Francis 18 Bailyn, Bernard 26–7 Baker, Philip 45–6 Bartlett, Thomas 111–12 Baugh, Daniel 273 Bayly, C.A. 133 Belich, Jamie 277 Bennett, Judith 243 Berlin, Ira 38 Biet, Antoine 38 Black, Jeremy 85 Blackstone, William 140–1 Bladen, ...
Dominique Rogers and Stewart R. King, “Housekeepers, Merchants, Rentières: Free Women of Color in the Port Cities of Colonial Saint-Domingue, 1750–90,” in Women ... Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 375, 378–79.
Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African
Finley, Moses I., Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology (Princeton, NJ: Marcus Wiener, 1998). Fisher, N. R. E., Slavery in ... Hunt, Peter, Slaves, Warfare, Ideology in the Greek Historians (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Other topics include family, gender, and community. The collection also gathers the best and most influential scholarship on attempts to abolish the trade, and the legacy of emancipation.
... Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Philanthropy and Improvement (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2016); Susan Lawrence, Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London ...
"The book focuses on the history of Jamaica during the years between Tacky's Revolt, the American Revolution, and the beginnings of parliamentary abolitionist legislation in 1788"--
This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries.
Written by a leading historian of Atlantic history, and including further reading lists, images and maps as well as a companion website featuring discussion questions, timelines and primary source extracts, this is an essential book for ...
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, ...
Britain in the Wider World traces the remarkable transformation of Britain between 1603 and 1800 as it developed into a world power.
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 ...
Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African
The final part goes on to study changes and continuities over time, looking at areas such as abolition, the aftermath of emancipation and commemoration. The volume concludes with a chapter on modern slavery.
Written by a leading historian of Atlantic history, and including further reading lists, images and maps as well as a companion website featuring discussion questions, timelines and primary source extracts, this is an essential book for ...
... American Colonial History at Tulane University. She specializes in the French Atlantic and circum-Caribbean. She is ... Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727–1760 (LSU Press 2007). She is ...