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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
Otros Autores: Dunn, Mary Maples, Dunn, Richard S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Penn, William, > 1644-1718.
Quakers.
Pioneers.
Quakers > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Pionniers > Pennsylvanie > Biographies.
Quakers > Pennsylvanie > Histoire.
Quakers > England > History > 17th century.
Quakers > Pennsylvania > Biography.
Pioneers > Pennsylvania > Biography.
Quakers > Pennsylvania > History.
Pennsylvania.
England.
Pennsylvanie > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Pennsylvania > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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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