By the mid-16th century, England’s reliance on the wool trade caused a group of merchants to form ‘The Mysterie, Company and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers’ with the aim of seeking out new goods and markets. Initially they looked eastward, but turning west, the New World opened greater opportunities. This history follows their endeavours and those of later seafarers such as Drake and Ralegh, showing how their enterprise ‘founded America and launched the British Empire’.
The thrilling story of the English merchant adventurers who changed the world. In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a daunting array of social, commercial and political problems. Struggling with a single export - woollen cloth - a group of merchants formed arguably the world's first joint-stock company and set out to seek new markets and trading partners. It was a venture that relied on the very latest scientific innovations and required an extraordinary appetite for risk. At first they headed east, and dreamed of Cathay, with its silks and exotic luxuries. Eventually, they turned west, and so began a new chapter in history. Based on archival research and a bold interpretation of the historical record, New World, Inc. draws a portrait of life in London, on the Atlantic and across the New World, and reveals how profit-hungry business people transformed England into a world power.
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