New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers

by Simon Targett and John Butman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316307882
• ISBN13: 9780316307888
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"