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Book The Papers of William Penn  1701 1718

Download or read book The Papers of William Penn 1701 1718 written by William Penn and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Papers of William Penn  Volume 4

Download or read book The Papers of William Penn Volume 4 written by Richard S. Dunn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the final eighteen years of William Penn's life, from 1701 to 1718. It opens with his last months as resident proprietor of Pennsylvania—a moment of great importance in the political history of the colony. It ends with his death on 30 July 1718, after a lingering illness.

Book The Papers of William Penn  Volume 4

Download or read book The Papers of William Penn Volume 4 written by William Penn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the final eighteen years of William Penn's life, from 1701 to 1718. It opens with his last months as resident proprietor of Pennsylvania—a moment of great importance in the political history of the colony. It ends with his death on 30 July 1718, after a lingering illness.

Book The Worlds of William Penn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew R. Murphy
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-10
  • ISBN : 1978801785
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book The Worlds of William Penn written by Andrew R. Murphy and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career. Contributors analyze the worlds that shaped Penn and the worlds that he shaped: Irish, English, American, Quaker, and imperial. The eighteen chapters in The Worlds of William Penn shed critical new light on Penn’s life and legacy, examining his early and often-overlooked time in Ireland; the literary, political, and theological legacies of his public career during the Restoration and after the 1688 Revolution; his role as proprietor of Pennsylvania; his religious leadership in the Quaker movement, and as a loyal lieutenant to George Fox, and his important role in the broader British imperial project. Coinciding with the 300th anniversary of Penn’s death the time is right for this examination of Penn’s importance both in his own time and to the ongoing campaign for political and religious liberty

Book Books on Early American History and Culture  1986 1990

Download or read book Books on Early American History and Culture 1986 1990 written by Raymond D. Irwin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Books on Early American History and Culture, 1991-1995, this work covers scholarship on early American history, including North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. This annotated bibliography surveys over 1,000 monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogs, and reference works published between 1986 and 1990. In thirty-two thematic sections, the book covers such topics as colonization, rural life and agriculture, and religion. This useful guide organizes the recent explosion of scholarly literature on pre-colonial, colonial, and early Republican America.

Book Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania  Volume 1  1682 1709

Download or read book Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania Volume 1 1682 1709 written by Craig W. Horle and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Book Covered with Night  A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

Download or read book Covered with Night A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America written by Nicole Eustace and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER • 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Finalist • National Book Award for Nonfiction Best Books of the Year • TIME, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews The Pulitzer Prize-winning history that transforms a single event in 1722 into an unparalleled portrait of early America. In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, the crime ignited a contest between Native American forms of justice—rooted in community, forgiveness, and reparations—and the colonial ideology of harsh reprisal that called for the accused killers to be executed if found guilty. In Covered with Night, historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the attack and its aftermath, introducing a group of unforgettable individuals—from the slain man’s resilient widow to an Indigenous diplomat known as “Captain Civility” to the scheming governor of Pennsylvania—as she narrates a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations. Taking its title from a Haudenosaunee metaphor for mourning, Covered with Night ultimately urges us to consider Indigenous approaches to grief and condolence, rupture and repair, as we seek new avenues of justice in our own era.

Book Soundings in Atlantic History

Download or read book Soundings in Atlantic History written by Bernard Bailyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a cutting-edge collection of original essays on the connections and structures that made the Atlantic world a coherent regional entity.

Book The Shortest Way with Defoe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael B. Prince
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2020-04-28
  • ISBN : 0813943663
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Shortest Way with Defoe written by Michael B. Prince and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that Robinson Crusoe contains a secret satire, written against one person, that has gone undetected for 300 years. By locating Defoe's nemesis and discovering what he represented and how Defoe fought him, Michael Prince's book opens the way to a new account of Defoe's emergence as a novelist. The book begins with Defoe’s conviction for seditious libel for penning a pamphlet called The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702). A question of biography segues into questions of theology and intellectual history and of formal analysis; these questions in turn require close attention to the early reception of Defoe's works, especially by those who hated or suspected him. Prince aims to recover the way of reading Defoe that his enemies considered accurate. Thus, the book rethinks the positions represented in Defoe's ambiguous alternation and mimicking of narrative and editorial voices in his tracts, proto-novels, and novels. By examining Defoe's early publications alongside Robinson Crusoe, Prince shows that Defoe traveled through nonrealist, nonhistorical genres on the way to discovering the form of prose fiction we now call the novel. Moreover, a climate (or figure) of extreme religious intolerance and political persecution required Defoe always to seek refuge in literary disguise. And, religious convictions aside, Defoe's practice as a writer found him inhabiting forms known for their covert deism.

Book The Brandywine

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  • Author : W. Barksdale Maynard
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0812246772
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Brandywine written by W. Barksdale Maynard and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled among picturesque rolling hills, the Brandywine River winds from southeastern Pennsylvania into Delaware. The Brandywine: An Intimate Portrait is the first book to trace the rich vein of history in the region, from original European settlement to the Battle of the Brandywine—the largest land battle of the Revolutionary War—to the establishment of First State National Monument on its banks in 2013. Acclaimed writer and Brandywine Valley resident W. Barksdale Maynard crafts a sweeping narrative about the men and women who shaped the Brandywine's history and culture. They include the du Ponts, who made their fortunes from gunpowder, and artist Howard Pyle, a native of the region, whose Brandywine School of American illustration took inspiration from the pastoral environment. Most famously, the Brandywine Valley is where N. C. and Andrew Wyeth, father and son, painted amid evocative landscapes for more than a century. With its unparalleled collection of museums and public gardens, including Longwood, Winterthur, and Hagley, the Brandywine continues to attract millions of visitors from around the world. Richly illustrated with seldom-seen historical photographs, paintings, and drawings, The Brandywine vividly captures the spirit of a storied region that has inspired generations.

Book Law and Religion in Colonial America

Download or read book Law and Religion in Colonial America written by Scott Douglas Gerber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. Indeed, the two colonies originally most opposed to religious liberty for anyone who did not share their views, Connecticut and Massachusetts, eventually became bastions of it. By focusing on law, Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons – Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts – and challenges the conventional view that colonial America had a unified religious history.

Book Historical Documentary Editions

Download or read book Historical Documentary Editions written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Documentary Editions 1993

Download or read book Historical Documentary Editions 1993 written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Documentary Editions 2000

Download or read book Historical Documentary Editions 2000 written by United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    A Clock for the Rooms     The Horological Legacy of the Library Company of Philadelphia

Download or read book A Clock for the Rooms The Horological Legacy of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Jay Robert Stiefel and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annotation

Download or read book Annotation written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Humanities

Download or read book Humanities written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: