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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smolenski, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
1600-1775
Quakers > Pennsylvania > History.
Quakers > Pennsylvanie > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Ethnic relations
Quakers
Pennsylvania > Ethnic relations.
Pennsylvania > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvanie > Relations interethniques.
Pennsylvanie > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Pennsylvania
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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