Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Power, Orla"
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Irish planters, Atlantic merchants: the development of St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1750-1766
Power, Orla (2011-05)The West Indian island of St. Croix became a colony of the Kingdom of DenmarkNorway in 1733.1 Despite this, it remained undeveloped until the late 1740s when investment in the large-scale production of sugarcane began in ...