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 cul…
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 cul…
En mai 1803, Bonaparte vend la grande Louisiane aux États-Unis qui doublent ainsi la surface de leur territoire. D'abord français depuis 1682, puis espagnols depuis 1762, les Louisianais, qui se croyaient redevenus français depuis 1802, apprennent avec retard, étonnement et inqu…
"Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to functi…