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World of Trouble
A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey through the American Revolution
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
An intimate account of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of a Quaker pacifist couple living in Philadelphia
Author / Editor information
Richard Godbeer is Director of the Hall Center for the Humanities and Charles W. Battey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is a leading scholar of early American history whose previous books include Sexual Revolution in Early America and Escaping Salem.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. “A Cornerstone to My Love-Fabric”: In Which Henry Drinker Woos Elizabeth Sandwith
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2. “Tenderness, Care, and Anxiety” at Home and Abroad: In Which the Drinkers Embark on Married Life
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3. “Obliged to Wade through This Sea of Politics”: In Which the Firm of James and Drinker Flounders in Storms of Political Protest
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4. “Cruelty and Oppression”: In Which Henry Drinker Is Arrested and Sent into Exile
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5. “Inward and Outward Trials”: Surviving the Revolution
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6. “The Cause of Humanity, as Well as Our Interest”: In Which Henry Drinker Reinvents Himself as a Moral Architect
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7. “Times Are Much Changed, and Maids Are Become Mistresses”: In Which Elizabeth Drinker Tries to Fend Off a Domestic Revolution
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8. “A Scene of Affl iction and Grief”: In Which Elizabeth and Henry Drinker Face New Challenges to Their Family’s Survival
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9. “To the Place of Fixedness”: In Which the Drinkers Reach the End of Their Journey
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Epilogue
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Family Trees
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Chronology
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Notes
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Index
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November 26, 2019
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9780300248906
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480
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17 b-w illus.
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