The World of William Penn / / Richard S. Dunn, Mary Maples Dunn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Dunn, Mary Maples,; Dunn, Richard S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Maps --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. The Personality of William Penn --; 2. The Young Controversialist --; 3. Penny Wise and Pound Foolish: Penn as a Businessman --; 4. A Representative of the Alternative Society of Restoration England? --; 5. William Penn, 1689-1702: Eclipse, Frustration, and Achievement --; 6. Agricultural Conditions in England, circa 1680 --; 7. The World Women Knew: Women Workers in the North of England During the Late Seventeenth Century --; 8. Out of the Mainstream: Catholic and Quaker Women in the Restoration Northwest --; 9. The Irish Background to Perm's Experiment --; 10. Quakerism: Made In America? --; 11. "The Peaceable Kingdom": Quaker Pennsylvania in the Stuart Empire --; 12. Brother Miquon: Good Lord! --; 13. From "Dark Corners" to American Domesticity: The British Social Context of the Welsh and Cheshire Quakers' Familial Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1657-1685 --; 14. William Penn's Scottish Counterparts: The Quakers of "North Britain" and the Colonization of East New Jersey --; 15. Promoters and Passengers: The German Immigrant Trade, 1683-1775 --; 16. Puritanism, Spiritualism, and Quakerism: An Historiogmphical Essay --; 17. The Affirmation Controversy and Religious Liberty --; 18. Quaker Discipline and Order, 1680-1720: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and London Yearly Meeting --; 19. The Early Merchants of Philadelphia: The Formation and Disintegration of a Founding Elite --; 20. The Great Quaker Business Families of Eighteenth-Century London: The Rise and Fall of a Sectarian Patriciate --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512801965; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512801965
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard S. Dunn, Mary Maples Dunn.

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.