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A collection of 20 essays, by a distinguished panel of specialists in British and American history, that explores the complex political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social environment in which William Penn lived and worked.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dunn, Richard S., Dunn, Mary Maples
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
Temas:
Penn, William, > 1644-1718.
Penn, William, > 1644-1718
1600-1775
Quakers > Pennsylvania > History.
Pioneers > Pennsylvania > Biography.
Quakers > Pennsylvania > Biography.
Quakers > England > History > 17th century.
Quakers > Pennsylvanie > Histoire.
Pionniers > Pennsylvanie > Biographies.
Quakers > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Pioneers
Quakers
Pennsylvania > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvanie > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
England
Pennsylvania
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. William Penn reconsidered
  • The personality of William Penn / Mary Maples Dunn
  • The young controversialist / Hugh Barbour
  • Penny wise and pound foolish : Penn as a businessman / Ricahrd S. Dunn
  • A representative of the Alternative Society of Restoration England? / J.R. Jones
  • William Penn, 1689-1702 : Eclipse, frustration, and achievement / Caroline Robbins
  • Part II. Penn's Britain
  • Agricultural conditions in England, circa 1680 / Joan Thirsk
  • The world women knew : Women workers in the North of England during the late seventeenth century / Carole Shammas
  • Out of the mainstream : Catholic and Quaker women in the Restoration Northwest / Michael J. Galgano
  • The Irish background to Penn's experiment / Nicholas Canny
  • Quakerism : Made in America? / Richard T. Vann
  • Part III. Penn's America
  • "The peaceable kingdom" : Quaker Pennsylvania in the Stuart empire / Stephen Saunders Webb
  • Brother Miquon : Good Lord! / Francis Jennings
  • From "dark corners" to American domesticity : The British social context of the Welsh and Cheshire Quakers' familial revolution in Pennsylvania, 1657-1685 / Barry Levy
  • William Penn's Scottish counterparts : The Quakers of "North Britain" and the colonization of East New Jersy / Ned Landsman
  • Promoters and passengers : The German immigrant trade, 1683-1775 / Marianne S. Wokeck
  • Part IV. Meeting house and counting house
  • Puritanism, spiritualism, and Quakerism : An historiographical essay / Melvin B. Endy, Jr.
  • The affirmation controversy and religious liberty / J. William Frost
  • Quaker discipline and order, 1680-1720 : Philadelphia yearly meeting and London yearly meeting / Edwin B. Bronner
  • The early merchants of Philadelphia : The formation and disintegration of a founding elite / Gary B. Nash
  • The great Quaker business families of eighteenth-century London : The rise and fall of a sectarian patriciate / Jacob M. Price.

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