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    America the Good, America the Brave, America the Free: Reviewing the Oxford History of the United States
    Burnard, T (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2011-08)
    With the publication of Gordon S. Wood’s Empire of Liberty, the Oxford History of the United States, first envisioned nearly fifty years ago, has finally reached the two-thirds mark. Seven of its eleven chronological volumes and one thematic volume are now published. This essay reviews these eight works. It would be best to wait until all twelve volumes are published but, given the glacial progress of the series, who can wait that long ? The first volume, Middlekauff’s narrative of the American Revolution, was published in my final year as an undergraduate. The series will not be finished until I reach my late fifties. Individual works, all intended to adhere to the plan initially laid down by the series’s first editor, C. Vann Woodward, that these be narrative histories readily accessible to the educated general public, have met with great acclaim, winning three Pulitzer Prizes, a Bancroft and a Parkman. Each volume, except Patterson’s second volume on contemporary American history, is hernia-inducingly heavy, containing between 736 and 1,035 pages. The total number of pages so far produced is 6,570, of which 5,215 are text. If we assume that each of the next four volumes comes in at over eight hundred pages, then the series will amount to ten thousand pages of narrative on the prehistory and history of the United States.
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    White West Indian Identity in the Eighteenth Century
    Burnard, T (Texas A&M University Press, 2010)
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    The planter class
    Burnard, T (Routledge, 2010-01-01)
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    British West Indies and Bermuda
    Burnard, T ; Smith, MM ; Paquette, RL (Oxford University Press, 2010)
    This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in the British West Indies and Bermuda. The British West Indies differed from other places colonized by the British in the Americas in the rapidity by which slavery became central to the workings of society. In this process, Barbadosstands stood out both for the qualitative leap taken by entrepreneurial Barbadian sugar planters in integrating the factors of production - Barbadian land, African slaves, and London Capital - into an impressively efficient operation under a single owner and for the influence of Barbados's slave society on English and non-English colonies. In Bermuda, the charter generation of Africans, possibly from West-Central Africa, arrived early (by 1620, the island had around 100 African slaves) and lasted for several generations. Bermuda tried - and for a time succeeded - in establishing an economy based on tobacco, but this tiny archipelago, one-eighth the size of Barbados, never made the transition to a mature plantation society. Without a plantation generation to overwhelm them, however, Bermudian slaves were quintessential Atlantic creoles, often attaining a measure of independence denied to slaves elsewhere in a fluid society where slavery closely resembled indentured servitude.
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