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1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
I. Acadian Beginnings; II. Trader to 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"; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Colonisation |
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United States |
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Canada |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Nelson, John, -1734.
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| SUBJECT |
Nelson, John, -1734 fast |
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Adventure and adventurers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
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Merchants -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
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Merchants -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Adventure and adventurers
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Merchants
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Boston (Mass.) -- Biography
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Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015931
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Massachusetts -- Boston
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
90033286 |
| ISBN |
1423736982 |
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9781423736981 |
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1601297785 |
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9781601297785 |
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9780195065053 |
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0195065050 |
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128052510X |
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9781280525100 |
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9786610525102 |
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6610525102 |
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