Profits in the wilderness : entrepreneurship and the founding of New England towns in the seventeenth century / / John Frederick Martin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459926103321
• Autore: Martin John Frederick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill : , : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , [1991]; ©1991
• ISBN: 1-4696-0003-X; 1-4696-1577-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Collana: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
• Disciplina: 330.974/02
• Soggetti: Capitalism - New England - History - 17th century; Entrepreneurship - New England - History - 17th century; Cities and towns - New England - History - 17th century; Electronic books.; New England Economic conditions; New England Politics and government To 1775
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-349) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: ENTREPRENEURSHIP; Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship and Town-Founding; I. Varieties of Town Promoters; II. Profits; III. Land Policies of the General Courts; Chapter 2 The Leading Entrepreneurs; I. The Connecticut Valley and Connecticut Colony; II. Rhode Island; III. Plymouth Colony; IV. The Nipmuck and the Merrimack; V. Maine and New Hampshire; Chapter 3 Commerce and Culture; I. Frontier Expansion and Puritanism; II. Land as a Commodity; PART II: TOWNS; Chapter 4 The Creation of Land Corporations in Towns; I. English CorporationsII. Town Covenants; III. The Separation of Church and Corporation; Chapter 5 The Use of Shares; I. Dividing Land; II. Financing Town Affairs; III. Voting; Chapter 6 The Exclusiveness of Land Corporations; I. Limiting the Membership of Corporations; II. The ; Nonproprietors of New England Towns; III. Towns Launched by Other Towns; Chapter 7 The Communal Ideal; I. The Landholding Community; II. The Social Community; Chapter 8 The Ambiguous Character of Town Institutions; I. Towns as Private Enterprises; II. The Clash of Public and Private Interpretations of Towns; PART III: TOWNS TRANSFORMEDChapter 9 The Separation of Proprietorships from Towns; I. The Land Policy of Sir Edmund Andros; II. The Reaction of the Towns; Chapter 10 The Emergence of Public Institutions; Conclusion: The New England Town Reconsidered; APPENDIXES; PART I; 1. Real Estate of Town Promoters; 2. Timing of Church Formations; PART II; A Note on Sources and the Sample; 3. The Town Sample; 4. Covenants Creating Land, Corporations; 5. Reduction of Admissions to Land Corporations; 6. Town Residents without Land Shares; 7. Nonresident Owners of Land Shares; 8. Land Division; 9. Tax Assessment of Shares10. Franchise Restrictions; 11. Town Voting by Shares; 12. Town Land Fights; 13. Expansion of Land Corporations; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; MAP: New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century