An American Quaker in the British Isles : The Travel Journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775-1779

ISBN-13: 9780197260968 / Angielski

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Opis

In 1775, a young Philadelphia Quaker was sent by his father to gather detailed information on business conditions in the British Isles. Fisher's travels took him throughout Britain and Ireland, even across the English Channel, and the journals that record his observations provide a fascinating and distinctive commentary on the economic and social life of the time.

Recenzje

'Kenneth Morgan's handsome and scholarly edition of Jabez Fisher's journals ... falls within an important tradition ... This edition will be a great boon to economic historians, while it offers much of value to those interested in eighteenth-century Britain: Fisher was observant, travelled widely and, thanks to his Quaker contacts, had access to much information.' Jeremy Black, University of Durham, Albion, Summer '93, Vol. 25, No. 2