The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
by
John Butman, Simon Targett
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
*Named a Best History Book of the Month by Barnes and Noble*
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,...