John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer

John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9780195065053
ISBN-13 : 0195065050
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Book Synopsis John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer by : Richard R. Johnson

Download or read book John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer written by Richard R. Johnson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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