Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables xi
4. Maps xiii
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Introduction xix
7. William Penn Reconsidered
8. 1. The Personality of William Penn 3
9. 2. The Young Controversialist 15
10. 3. Penny Wise and Pound Foolish: Penn as a Businessman 37
11. 4. A Representative of the Alternative Society of Restoration England? 55
12. 5. William Penn, 1689–1702: Eclipse, Frustration, and Achievement 71
13. Penn’s Britain
14. 6. Agricultural Conditions in England, circa 1680 87
15. 7. The World Women Knew: Women Workers in the North of England During the Late Seventeenth Century 99
16. 8. Out of the Mainstream: Catholic and Quaker Women in the Restoration Northwest 117
17. 9. The Irish Background to Perm’s Experiment 139
18. 10. Quakerism: Made In America? 157
19. Penn’s America
20. 11. “The Peaceable Kingdom”: Quaker Pennsylvania in the Stuart Empire 173
21. 12. Brother Miquon: Good Lord! 195
22. 13. From “Dark Corners” to American Domesticity: The British Social Context of the Welsh and Cheshire Quakers' Familial Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1657–1685 215
23. 14. William Penn’s Scottish Counterparts: The Quakers of "North Britain" and the Colonization of East New Jersey 241
24. 15. Promoters and Passengers: The German Immigrant Trade, 1683–1775 259
25. Meeting House and Counting House
26. 16. Puritanism, Spiritualism, and Quakerism: An Historiogmphical Essay 281
27. 17. The Affirmation Controversy and Religious Liberty 303
28. 18. Quaker Discipline and Order, 1680–1720: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and London Yearly Meeting 323
29. 19. The Early Merchants of Philadelphia: The Formation and Disintegration of a Founding Elite 337
30. 20. The Great Quaker Business Families of Eighteenth-Century London: The Rise and Fall of a Sectarian Patriciate 363
31. Notes on Contributors 401
32. Index 407