Author : Jabez Maud Fisher
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis An American Quaker in the British Isles by : Jabez Maud Fisher
Download or read book An American Quaker in the British Isles written by Jabez Maud Fisher and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1992-04-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 very distinctive commentary on the economic and social life of the time. Detailed and astute descriptions of British manufacturing and trade are balanced by lively comments on landscape gardening and country houses, and there is much material on the transatlantic connections of the Society of Friends during the American Revolution. The travel journals are supplemented by Fisher's cameos of merchants in the major trading centers, with lists of all the goods handled.