Pioneers of a Peaceable Kingdom : : The Quaker Peace Testimony from the Colonial Era to the First World War / / Peter Brock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Brock, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1613
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

Extracted from Pacifism in the United States, this work focuses on the significant contribution of the Quakers to the history of pacifism in the United States.Originally published in 1971.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Society of Friends in the Colonial Period outside Pennsylvania -- Chapter 2. The Pacifist as Magistrate: The Holy Experiment in Quaker Pennsylvania -- Chapter 3. Quaker Pennsylvania: The Crisis of 1756 and Its Aftermath -- Chapter 4. Quakers and the American Revolution -- Chapter 5. The Quaker Peace Testimony, 1783-1861 -- Chapter 6. The Quakers in the Civil War -- Chapter 7. The Quaker Peace Testimony, 1865-1914 -- Bibliography -- Index