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John Nelson, merchant adventurer :

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0195065050

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9780195065053

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John Nelson, merchant adventurer :

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a life between empires /

First Statement of Responsibility

Richard R. Johnson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1991.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 194 p. :

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ill. ;

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22 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and index.

Text of Note

I. Acadian beginnings.--II. Trader of the eastward.--III. Seeking "to Live Indifferent."--IV. Revolution and rejection.--V. From Quebec to the Bastille.--VI. At King William's Whitehall.-- VII. "Your Very Loving Father."--VIII. "Crusht Between the Two Crownes."

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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." - Publisher.

Nelson, John,-1734.

Adventure and adventurers-- Massachusetts-- Boston, Biography.

Merchants-- Massachusetts-- Boston-- Biography.

Boston (Mass.), Biography.

Boston (Mass.), History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

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Johnson, Richard R.,1942-

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20130430105954.0

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