Browsing Master's Theses by Subject "Jamaica--History"

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  • Making Land With Pirates 

    Clothier, Kaitlin (East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)
    Privateer and pirate islands required four basic components to make them successful. First, the islands needed to lack economic potential for the imperial powers. The lack of economic potential led to governmental neglect ...

  • PROPRIETARIES, PRIVATEERS, AND PIRATES: America’s Forgotten Golden Age 

    Brooks, Baylus C. (East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)
    Scholars have usually treated all pirates as the same, regardless of class and education. Gentleman privateers and merchants from Jamaica, Bermuda, and other English cities of the West Indies, however, varied in cultivation, ...