John Nelson, merchant adventurer :: a life between empires /

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 cult...

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1. Verfasser: Johnson, Richard R., 1942-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Schriftenreihe:OUP E-Books.
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Zusammenfassung: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 bet
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.
ISBN:1423736982
9781423736981
1601297785
9781601297785
9780195065053
0195065050
128052510X
9781280525100
9786610525102
6610525102

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