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1. Slavery

   Edited by Gad Heuman, Trevor Burnard

   Series: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies

   Serious research in and around the history—and contemporary reality—of slavery is very wide-ranging, and flourishes as never before. This new four-volume collection from Routledge’s acclaimed series, Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, meets the need for a reference work to help users make...

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Routledge History of Slavery

   Edited by Gad Heuman, Trevor Burnard

   Series: Routledge Histories

   The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Creole Gentlemen

   The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776

   By Trevor Burnard

   Series: New World in the Atlantic World

   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...

   Published January 1st 2002 by Routledge