John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer: A Life Between Empires

by Richard R. Johnson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195065050
• ISBN13: 9780195065053
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"