Author: Henry Martyn DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
English Exiles in Amsterdam, 1597-1625
Author: Henry Martyn DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of York
Author: York Minster. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cathedral libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Literature of American History
Author: Josephus Nelson LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Writings of John Greenwood and Henry Barrow 1591-1593
Author: John GreenwoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134362714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Volumes five and six contain c. 25 pieces of manuscript material, or rare tracts many of which have been available for the first time.
House documents
Author: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Historical Sketches of John Moses, of Plymouth
Author: Zebina MosesProceedings of the American Antiquarian Society New Series, Vol. 7, October 1890 - October 1891
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368727990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1892.
New World, Inc.
Author: John ButmanPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316307874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown," the world's first joint-stock company. Back then, in the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a daunting array of social, commercial, and political problems. Struggling with a single export-woolen cloth-the merchants were forced to seek new markets and trading partners, especially as political discord followed the straitened circumstances in which so many English people found themselves. At first they headed east, and dreamed of Cathay-China, with its silks and exotic luxuries. Eventually, they turned west, and so began a new chapter in world history. The work of reaching the New World required the very latest in navigational science as well as an extraordinary appetite for risk. As this absorbing account shows, innovation and risk-taking were at the heart of the settlement of America, as was the profit motive. Trade and business drove English interest in America, and determined what happened once their ships reached the New World. The result of extensive archival work and a bold interpretation of the historical record, New World, Inc. draws a portrait of life in London, on the Atlantic, and across the New World that offers a fresh analysis of the founding of American history. In the tradition of the best works of history that make us reconsider the past and better understand the present, Butman and Targett examine the enterprising spirit that inspired European settlement of America and established a national culture of entrepreneurship and innovation that continues to this day.