AutorzyMartin John Frederick
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Profits in the Wilderness - Martin John Frederick
- Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time.
Martin's study will challenge historians to rethink not only social history but also the cultural history of early New England. Instead of taking sides in the long-standing debate between Puritan scholars and business historians, Martin identifies strains within Puritanism and the rest of the colonists' culture that both discouraged and encouraged land commerce, both supported and undermined communalism, both hindered and hastened development of the wilderness. Rather than portray colonists one-dimensionally, Martin analyzes how several different and competing ethics coexisted within a single, complex, and vibrant New England culture.
EAN: 9780807843468
Kod produktu
014FFL03527KS
Rok wydania
1991
Oprawa
Oprawa Skórzana
Miekka
Format
15.2x22.9cm
Język
angielski
Strony
384
Autorzy
Martin John Frederick
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