Profits in the Wilderness : Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, John Frederick
Corporate Author: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ondernemerschap.
Grondbezit.
Steden.
Politics and government
Entrepreneurship.
Economic history.
Cities and towns.
Capitalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Villes > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Entrepreneuriat > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Cities and towns > New England > History > 17th century.
Entrepreneurship > New England > History > 17th century.
Capitalism > New England > History > 17th century.
New England.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1775.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Conditions economiques.
New England > Politics and government > To 1775.
New England > Economic conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Entrepreneurship and town-founding
  • The leading entrepreneurs
  • Commerce and culture
  • The creation of land corporations in towns
  • The use of shares
  • The exclusiveness of land corporations
  • The communal ideal
  • The ambiguous character of town institutions
  • The separation of proprietorships from towns
  • The emergence of public institutions
  • The New England town reconsidered.

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