"Fully modern corporations appeared in fourteenth-century Toulouse, much earlier than previously believed Germain Sicard proves that Europe’s first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. He shows that the corporate form derives from a unique ownership contract from Medieval Europe called pariage, and a culture of ..."
"This book stresses the economic intuition behind the subject matter."
Vasco Da Gama And the Sea Route to India (Explorers of New Lands) by William H. Goetzmann, Koestler-Grack Library, 146 Pages, Published 2006 by Chelsea House Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-8611-7, ISBN: 0-7910-8611-9
Juan Ponce de Leon And His Lands of Discovery (Explorers of New Lands) by John C. Davenport, William H. Goetzmann Library, 142 Pages, Published 2006 by Chelsea House Pub (L) ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-8607-0, ISBN: 0-7910-8607-0
Hernando de Soto And His Expeditions Across the Americas (Explorers of New Lands) by Janet Hubbard Brown, William H. Goetzmann Library, 138 Pages, Published 2005 by Chelsea House Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-8610-0, ISBN: 0-7910-8610-0
NEW LANDS, NEW MEN America and the Second Great Age of Discovery by William H. Goetzmann Paperback, 54 Pages, Published 1987 by Penguin Usa (P) ISBN-13: 978-0-14-009733-7, ISBN: 0-14-009733-3
"Examines the adventures of the explorers during the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, and shows how the impetus to explore transcended national interests"
Exploration and Empire The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann Paperback, 700 Pages, Published 2008 by Acls Humanities E-Book ISBN-13: 978-1-59740-426-6, ISBN: 1-59740-426-8
"From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called "the Great American Desert." According to Goetzmann, the exp ..."
New Lands, New Men(Reprint) America and the Second Great Age of Discovery (Fred H. and Ella Mae Moore Texas History Series, No 16) by William H. Goetzmann, Kay Sloan Hardcover, 552 Pages, Published 1995 by Texas State Historical Assn ISBN-13: 978-0-87611-148-2, ISBN: 0-87611-148-7
"In New Lands, New Men, the third volume in his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, one of America’s leading historians tells the dramatic story of three centuries of exploration that witnessed Europeans exploring the Pacific and Northwest, Americans setting out across their own immense continent, and finally, Americans exploring new worlds: the oceans, Japan, the polar regions.Spanning the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Sec ..."
Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War(Updated) The San Jacinto Museum of History Paintings by William H. Goetzmann Hardcover, 220 Pages, Published 1994 by Texas State Historical Assn ISBN-13: 978-0-87611-131-4, ISBN: 0-87611-131-2
"Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War is an important book. . . . There is no other collection of such impressive dimension that reflects the experiences of a common volunteer soldier." --Robert W. Johannsen, author of To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination Private Sam Chamberlain provided up-close views of the Mexican War. This book reproduces these treasures for the first time in color"
Thomas Moran(2nd Edition) Artist of the Mountains by Thurman Wilkins, William H. Goetzmann Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3040-8, ISBN: 0-8061-3040-7
"This extensively revised edition of Thurman Wilkins’s masterful and engaging biography - well illustrated in color and black-and-white - draws on new information and recent scholarship to place Thomas Moran more securely in the milieu of the Gilded Age. It also portrays more fully the controversies that surrounded the art of Moran’s time, as he became "the Dean of American Painters." The American West was the subject of Thomas Moran’s ..."
Les Indiens (French Edition) by Karl Bodmer, WilliamGoetzmann Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1998 by Art Stock ISBN-13: 978-2-909808-39-0, ISBN: 2-909808-39-4