An American Quaker in the British Isles : the travel journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775-1779 / Kenneth Morgan (ed.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Jabez Maud, 1750-1779, author.

Contributor:

Morgan, Kenneth, 1953- editor.

Series:

Records of social and economic history. New series ; vol. 16.

Records of social and economic history. New series ; vol. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fisher, Jabez Maud, 1750-1779--Diaries.

Fisher, Jabez Maud.

Fisher, Jabez Maud, 1750-1779--Travel--Great Britain.

Fisher, Jabez Maud, 1750-1779.

Quakers.

History.

Americans.

Travel.

Great Britain--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Americans--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Quakers--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Genre:

Diaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

Other Title:

Oxford scholarly editions online.

Place of Publication:

[London] : British Academy, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. The travel journals are supplemented by Fisher's cameos of merchants the major trading centres, with lists of all the goods handled. Dr Morgan's edition makes available a text that adds up to a late eighteenth-century version of Defoe's famous tour.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1992.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 3, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191841095

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.