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Friends and strangers : the making of a Creole culture in colonial Pennsylvania /

Friends and Strangers offers a provocative new look at the transfer of English culture to North America. Setting Pennsylvania in the context of the broader Atlantic phenomenon of creolization, Smolenski's account of the Quaker colony's origins reveals the vital role this process played in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smolenski, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Colección:Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The origins of Quaker Pennsylvania
  • Quakerism's English roots
  • William Penn settles his colony: the problem of legitimacy in early Pennsylvania
  • Words and things: contesting civic identity in early Pennsylvania
  • "Bastard Quakers" in America: the Keithian schism and the creation of Creole Quakerism in early Pennsylvania
  • Narratives of early Pennsylvania, Part I: life on the colonial borderlands
  • Narratives of early Pennsylvania, Part II: the founding of Pennsylvania
  • The parables of Pennsylvania politics: the power of Quaker mythology
  • Conclusion: Caleb Pusey Miller, philosopher, man of letters.