Friends and strangers : the making of a Creole culture in colonial Pennsylvania John Smolenski

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smolenski, John.

Series:

Early American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quakers--Pennsylvania--History.

Quakers.

Pennsylvania--Ethnic relations.

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

viii, 401 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

Contents:

Introduction: the origins of Quaker Pennsylvania

Quakerism's English roots

William Penn settles his colony: the problem of legitimacy in early Pennsylvania

Words and things: contesting civic identity in early Pennsylvania

"Bastard Quakers" in America: the Keithian schism and the creation of Creole Quakerism in early Pennsylvania

Narratives of early Pennsylvania, I: life on the colonial borderlands

Narratives of early Pennsylvania, II: the founding of Pennsylvania

The parables of Pennsylvania politics: the power of Quaker mythology

Conclusion: Caleb Pusey, Miller philosopher and man of letters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP credit line: "Record of the Philadelphia Courts, 1865-86," pg.5 (Am .3092); David Lloyd_Vindication of the Legislative Power_, title page (LCP Am 1725 Lo - oversize); Great Belt of Wampum (unframed), photograph, Society Photograph Collection (Box.FF 58.1)

ISBN:

9780812242393 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

0812242394 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

461895799