What is English Adventurism?
Adventurers -Englishmen who risked purse or person for the promise of American wealth- financed and oversaw England's West Indian colonies instead of the royal officials who governed Spanish dominions
Adventurism was probably the most important facet of initial English colonial efforts. As the subtitle says, adventurers were men who hazarded their fortunes and their lives for the promise of life-changing money. They were so labeled because they “adventured” their capital -it’s where the modern term venture capitalist comes from- and because they quit…
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