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Peaceable kingdom lost : the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment /
William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Newcomers
- Settlers and squatters
- Expansion
- Fraud
- A hunger for land
- Braddock's defeat
- Pennsylvania goes to war
- Negotiations
- Westward journeys
- Conquest
- Indian uprising
- Rangers
- Conestoga Indiantown
- Lancaster workhouse
- Panic in Philadelphia
- The Declaration and Remonstrance
- A proper spirit of jealousy and revenge
- Christian white savages
- Under the tyrant's foot
- Killers
- Mercenaries
- Revolutionaries.