Undergraduate Course: Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713 (ECSH10008)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course examines the economic and social development of Jamaica between its capture by the English in 1655 and the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. |
| Course description |
The course examines how the English shaped the economic and social development of Jamaica after its capture in 1655 and what this reveals about the aspirations, achievements and consequences of early modern colonial expansion. Class topics include the Western Design, the economics of piracy and privateering, contraband trade, slavery, the development of a plantation society, and the problems faced in the wars of 1689-1713. The course makes heavy use of primary sources (including official correspondence, diaries, private letters, and statistical data). It challenges students to engage more directly with the past than is possible in a survey course and provides an insight into the nature, uses, and pitfalls of the various types of material used by historians.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | A pass or passes in 40 credits of first level historical courses or equivalent and a pass or passes in 40 credits of second level historical courses or equivalent.
Before enrolling students on this course, PTs are asked to contact the History Honours Admission Administrator to ensure that a place is available (Tel: 503780). |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 History courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. Applicants should note that, as with other popular courses, meeting the minimum does NOT guarantee admission.
** as numbers are limited, visiting students should contact the Visiting Student Office directly for admission to this course **
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, command of the body of knowledge considered in the course;
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, an ability to read, analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship;
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, an ability to understand, evaluate and utilise a variety of primary source material;
- demonstrate, by way of coursework and examination as required, the ability to develop and sustain scholarly arguments in oral and written form, by formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence;
- demonstrate independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers.
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Reading List
J. H. Bennet, Cary Helyar, merchant and planter of seventeenth century Jamaica, WMQ (1986)
R. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves (1972)
D. Eltis, New estimates of exports from Barbados and Jamaica, 1655-1701, WMQ (1995)
M. Pawson and D. Buisseret, Port Royal, Jamaica (1975)
C. Pestana, Early English Jamaica without pirates, WMQ (2014)
E. Rugemer, The development of mastery and race in the comprehensive slave codes of the Greater Caribbean in the seventeenth century, WMQ (2013)
A. P. Thornton, West India Policy Under the Restoration (1956)
N. Zahedieh, Trade, plunder and economic development in early English Jamaica, 1655-1689, Economic History Review, (1986)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Trade Plunder and Planters |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Nuala Zahedieh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3836
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Course secretary | Miss Stephanie Blakey
Tel: (0131 6)50 3580
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