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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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