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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b2957744.
- catalog coverage "Boston (Mass.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Boston (Mass.) History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
- catalog coverage "Boston (Mass.) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
- catalog created "1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
- catalog description "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."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "ix, 194 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195065050".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Boston (Mass.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Boston (Mass.) History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
- catalog spatial "Boston (Mass.) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Boston".
- catalog subject "974.4/6102/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Adventure and adventurers Massachusetts Boston Biography.".
- catalog subject "F73.4 .J67 1991".
- catalog subject "Merchants Massachusetts Boston Biography.".
- catalog subject "Nelson, John, -1734.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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."".
- catalog title "John Nelson, merchant adventurer : a life between empires / Richard R. Johnson.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".