The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century

American Colonial History
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The book by Bernard Bailyn is a comprehensive exploration of the diverse activities of the individuals who led to the establishment of the New England commercial kingdom. The author captures the early encounters of these men with diverse communities, including the Indians, in a seven-part text that covers the events from the beginning to the end of the seventeenth century (Bailyn 1979). Many historical readers have demanded an investigation of this concept and presentation in a comprehensive book, which makes Bailyn’s work a response to a historiography gap. The organization of the text is meticulous and integrates a detailed account of interlocked events that gradually transformed the position of New England in the mercantile realms at the time. As a result, Bailyn’s book goes beyond providing a history of the trade by depicting the traders as products of the societies they lived and interacted with throughout the century.             As expected in such a book, the author satisfies the readers’ expectations by detailing how the New England trade began and the subtle aspects that saw the proliferation of commerce. Its capacity to highlight the critical trading commodities that established linkages with other worlds emerges as one of the primary strengths of this book (Bailyn 1979). Other texts have explored New England’s chronicle in different ways, which makes consistency in the already-known accounts a fundamental aspect of the text by Bernard Bailyn. As a result, the capacity of the author to illustrate the beginning of fur trades, the English manufacturing sector, and the rise of the exportation of other goods such as fish, farm-based products, and lumber as a source of capital ...