Description: Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer: A Life Between Empires ISBN:0195065050 Author:Johnson, Richard R. Publisher:Oxford University Press Release Date:1991 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:Collectible: Good Sku: 2346032 Notes: First edition. Minor ink marginalia in Notes and Index. 1991 Hard Cover. ix, 194 pp. "John Nelson was an entrepreneur born in the mid-seventeenth century--a man, in Richard Johnson's words, "operating ahead of the government and settled society from which he came," who "responded to conventions and conditions derived from several different and often competing cultures." For Nelson, this meant trading out of Boston to the French and Indians of Canada, pursuing his family's dreams of the proprietorship of Nova Scotia, and promoting schemes of espionage and military conquest on both sides of the Atlantic. In the course of a long and adventurous life, Nelson served as middleman between Canada and New England; led an uprising that toppled the royal government of Massachusetts in 1689; and passed years in French prisons, including the Bastille, and then at court in London as a player in the complex European diplomacy of the time. Nelson's career reveals in bold colors the political and economic pressures exerted upon colonial America by the expansion and bitter conflict of European empires--he himself complained of being "crusht between the two Crownes." Yet it also shows how one man fashioned a life as "spy, speculator, multinational merchant, memorialist, politician, prisoner, parent, friend, and gentleman." Gracefully written and widely researched, the book is both a fine example of the new Atlantic history and a vivid recounting of the fortunes of an exceptional individual. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer : Alife between Empires
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 1991
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Essays & Travelogues
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Subject Area: Travel, History
Author: Richard R. Johnson
Item Length: 8.6 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
