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The World of William Penn

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2015

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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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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Tables

    xi
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    Maps

    xiii
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    Abbreviations

    xv
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    Introduction

    xix
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  • William Penn Reconsidered
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    1. The Personality of William Penn

    3
    Mary Maples Dunn
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    2. The Young Controversialist

    15
    Hugh Barbour
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    3. Penny Wise and Pound Foolish: Penn as a Businessman

    37
    Richard S. Dunn
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    4. A Representative of the Alternative Society of Restoration England?

    55
    J. R. Jones
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    5. William Penn, 1689–1702: Eclipse, Frustration, and Achievement

    71
    Caroline Robbins
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  • Penn’s Britain
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    6. Agricultural Conditions in England, circa 1680

    87
    Joan Thirsk
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    7. The World Women Knew: Women Workers in the North of England During the Late Seventeenth Century

    99
    Carole Shammas
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    8. Out of the Mainstream: Catholic and Quaker Women in the Restoration Northwest

    117
    Michael J. Galgano
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    9. The Irish Background to Perm’s Experiment

    139
    Nicholas Canny
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    10. Quakerism: Made In America?

    157
    Richard T. Vann
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  • Penn’s America
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    11. “The Peaceable Kingdom”: Quaker Pennsylvania in the Stuart Empire

    173
    Stephen Saunders Webb
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    12. Brother Miquon: Good Lord!

    195
    Francis Jennings
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    13. From “Dark Corners” to American Domesticity: The British Social Context of the Welsh and Cheshire Quakers' Familial Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1657–1685

    215
    Barry Levy
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    14. William Penn’s Scottish Counterparts: The Quakers of "North Britain" and the Colonization of East New Jersey

    241
    Ned Landsman
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    15. Promoters and Passengers: The German Immigrant Trade, 1683–1775

    259
    Marianne S. Wokeck
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  • Meeting House and Counting House
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    16. Puritanism, Spiritualism, and Quakerism: An Historiogmphical Essay

    281
    Melvin B. Endy
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    17. The Affirmation Controversy and Religious Liberty

    303
    J. William Frost
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    18. Quaker Discipline and Order, 1680–1720: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and London Yearly Meeting

    323
    Edwin B. Bronner
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    19. The Early Merchants of Philadelphia: The Formation and Disintegration of a Founding Elite

    337
    Gary B. Nash
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    20. The Great Quaker Business Families of Eighteenth-Century London: The Rise and Fall of a Sectarian Patriciate

    363
    Jacob M. Price
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    Notes on Contributors

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    Index

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American History; History; American Studies
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