Financing Sovereignty Diana O. Perkins as well as some of

as well as some of the smaller islands

with an appreciation of commonalities and differences

and voice that speak directly to our condition

Her favorite place on earth is Bible camp every summer

while expressing their frustration at the pressures placed upon them

Financing Sovereignty Diana O. Perkins as well as some ofFinancing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums on the City of London's burgeoning South American sovereign debt market by selling bonds of the State of Poyais. The only problem Poyais did not exist. At least, that is what MacGregor was quickly accused of by the press and public opinion at the