Author: Peter C. Newman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780143051473
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Shaping the destiny of Canada, the merchant founders of the Hudson's Bay Company tamed the wilderness as they built the world's largest private commerical empire. A brilliant story chronicling the unsung heroes of North American history.
Company of Adventurers
Author: Peter C. Newman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780143051473
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Shaping the destiny of Canada, the merchant founders of the Hudson's Bay Company tamed the wilderness as they built the world's largest private commerical empire. A brilliant story chronicling the unsung heroes of North American history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780143051473
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Shaping the destiny of Canada, the merchant founders of the Hudson's Bay Company tamed the wilderness as they built the world's largest private commerical empire. A brilliant story chronicling the unsung heroes of North American history.
The Law Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Law Journal Reports
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
The Law Journal Reports
Author: Henry D. Barton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
New World, Inc.
Author: John Butman
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery
Author: Great Britain. Court of Chancery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Equity
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Equity
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Slathbog's Gold
Author: Mark Forman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781606410295
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What is courage? What is honor? What does it feel like to have friends you would give your life for? And what role do fear and apprehension play when a person is faced with life-changing choices? Slathbog's Gold, the first book in an exciting new YA epic fantasy series, sends fifteen-year-old Alex Taylor on the adventure of a lifetime. Right at a time when Alex is wishing his life could change, he sees a sign in Mr. Clutter's bookshop window: "Adventurers Wanted. Apply Within." The sign seems to be referring to him. Moreover, not just anyone can enter Mr. Clutter's bookshop. But Alex does, and the adventure begins. Alex is the eighth man needed to complete a band of adventurers seeking the lair of Slathbog the Red - and evil dragon with a legendary treasure. Along the way, Alex learns about honesty, integrity, honor, and, most importantly, friendship.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781606410295
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What is courage? What is honor? What does it feel like to have friends you would give your life for? And what role do fear and apprehension play when a person is faced with life-changing choices? Slathbog's Gold, the first book in an exciting new YA epic fantasy series, sends fifteen-year-old Alex Taylor on the adventure of a lifetime. Right at a time when Alex is wishing his life could change, he sees a sign in Mr. Clutter's bookshop window: "Adventurers Wanted. Apply Within." The sign seems to be referring to him. Moreover, not just anyone can enter Mr. Clutter's bookshop. But Alex does, and the adventure begins. Alex is the eighth man needed to complete a band of adventurers seeking the lair of Slathbog the Red - and evil dragon with a legendary treasure. Along the way, Alex learns about honesty, integrity, honor, and, most importantly, friendship.
Cyclopaedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary Of Arts and Sciences
Author: Ephraim Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description