Trevor Burnard Explained

Trevor Graeme Burnard (15 October 1960 – 19 July 2024) was a New Zealand historian and professor of history at the University of Hull, where he was the Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation .^[1] He was a specialist in the history of slavery in the Atlantic world.^[2] He was formerly at the University of Warwick^[3] and the University of Melbourne.^[4] He was a member of the editorial board of the journal Slavery and Abolition.^[5] Burnard died on 19 July 2024, at the age of 63.^[6]

Selected publications

Books

• 2023, Writing the History of Global Slavery^[7]
• The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica^[8]
• Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World^[9]
• Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691–1776^{[10] [11] [12]}
• The Idea of Atlantic History: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
• Colonization of English America: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
• British Atlantic World: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
• American Revolution: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
• Planters, Merchants, and Slaves^[13]
• Hearing Slaves Speak, Guyana Classics Library,^[14] Caribbean Press, 2010. .

Selected articles and book chapters

• "A Passion For Places: The Geographic Turn In Early American History", Commonplace, July 2008.^[15]
• "The Other British Colonies". In W. Klooster (ed.), The Enlightenment and the British Colonesi (248–68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.^[16]

External links

• Web site: Trevor Burnard - University of Melbourne - Academia.edu. Unimelb.academia.edu. 2 May 2019.
• Web site: Prof. Trevor Burnard Interview - 2/16/18. Western Washington University. 22 February 2018. 2 May 2019. YouTube.
• Web site: Thomas Thistlewood: The Tyranny of Masters - Prof. Trevor Burnard. Minecraft Saint Lauretia project. 6 November 2017. 2 May 2019. YouTube.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Trevor Burnard - The University of Hull. www.hull.ac.uk. 24 March 2022.
2. Web site: Q&A with Professor Trevor Burnard. 13 February 2018. Ahaecr.wordpress.com. 2 May 2019.
3. Web site: Former Member of Staff: Professor Trevor Burnard. Warwick.ac.uk. 2 May 2019.
4. Web site: PROF Trevor Burnard - The University of Melbourne. Findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. 2 May 2019.
5. Web site: Honouring the life and legacy of Professor Trevor Burnard. University of Hull, Wilberforce Institute. 22 July 2024. 24 July 2024.
6. News: Banfield-Nwachi . Mabel . 2024-07-22 . Tributes paid to UK historian lauded for work on Atlantic slavery . 2024-07-23 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
7. Book: Writing the History of Global Slavery . 19 July 2024 . 10.1017/9781009406284 . 2023 . Burnard . Trevor . 978-1-009-40628-4 .
8. Web site: The Plantation Machine - Trevor Burnard, John Garrigus. Upenn.edu. 2 May 2019.
9. Web site: Kelley on Burnard, 'Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo Jamaican World' and Trevor Burnard, 'Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World' - H-Atlantic - H-Net. Networks.h-net.org. 2 May 2019.
10. Web site: Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776. CRC Press. 2 May 2019.
11. Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691– 1776. Emory G.. Evans. 1 June 2003. Journal of American History. 90. 1. 205–206. 2 May 2019. 10.2307/3659810. 3659810.
12. Trevor Burnard. Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691–1776. (New World in the Atlantic World.) New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. ix, 278. Cloth $85.00, paper $23.95. Thomas. Murphy. S.. J. 1 February 2003. The American Historical Review. 108. 1. 185. 10.1086/ahr/108.1.185.
13. Book: Planters, Merchants, and Slaves. American Beginnings, 1500-1900 . 2 May 2019. Press.uchicago.edu.
14. Web site: HEARING SLAVES SPEAK by TREVOR BURNARD. Guyana Chronicle. 2 August 2014. 24 July 2024.
15. A Passion For Places: The Geographic Turn In Early American History. Trevor. Burnard. Commonplace: the journal of early American life. 8.4. July 2008. 24 July 2024.
16. Book: Burnard, Trevor. The Other British Colonies. W. . Klooster. The Enlightenment and the British Colonies. 248–68. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2023. 10.1017/9781108567671.