The World of William Penn / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1986 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
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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