New world, Inc
Subtitle: the making of America by England's merchant adventurers
By: John Butman & Simon Targett
Contributors: Targett, Simon, author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780316307888
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Commerce; Colonial companies; Colonies; Discovery and exploration; British; History
Description: Describes how English merchant adventurers, in search of new markets and trading partners, were the earliest founders of America, with profit as their primary motive.
Notes: Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-353) and index.
Table of contents: title: The prequel to the pilgrims; title: Before America, 1551-1574; title: Waxing cold and in decay; title: The lure of Cathay; title: The mysterie; title: A newe and strange navigation; title: An elusive realm; title: Enterprise, 1574-1604; title: The last great challenge of the age; title: The supposed strait; title: Tresor trouvee; title: Ilandish empire; title: Nova Albion; title: To heaven by sea; title: Western planting; title: Principal navigations; title: The old East and the new West; title: Commonwealth, 1604-1621; title: Two Virginias; title: A public plantation; title: First colony; title: A stake in the ground; title: A weighty voyage; title: Forgotten founders.