Mary Draper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History | Midwestern State University
Dr. Mary Draper is an associate professor of history at Midwestern State University. She is currently working on a book manuscript that reconstructs the environmental and maritime knowledge that propelled colonization in the early modern British Caribbean. Her work has been published in Early American Studies, Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History, and the History Teacher. She earned her B.A. from Rice University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
July 27, 2024
Episode 9: The Sugar
In the 1760s, Jamaica and the islands of the British Caribbean were the crown jewels of Britain's American Empire. And as King George III's ministers searched for solutions to a vexing imperial puzzle and moved to a counter …