-Century Mexico City -- 3. Investing in Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Colonial ‘South Africa’ -- 4. A Mosaic of Entrepreneurship … Nature of the Atlantic World Marketplace: Female Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth-Century American Lowcountry -- 7. On Their … Own in a ‘Man’s World’: Widows in Business in Colonial New Zealand and Australia -- 8. In the Business of Piracy …

institutional influences from a historical context, each chapter examines entrepreneurship during a particular period and in an … medieval period to today. In considering the critical contributions of entrepreneurship, the authors discuss why … development, as well as entrepreneurship's role in economic growth. The book is filled with past examples and events that provide …