Peaceable kingdom lost the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment
- Author/Creator:
- Kenny, Kevin, 1960-
- Publication/Creation:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Peaceable kingdom lost the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment / Kevin Kenny
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Penn, William,1644-1718--Philosophy
Paxton Boys
Vigilantes--Pennsylvania--History--18th century
Indigenous peoples of North America--Pennsylvania--History--18th century
Culture conflict--Pennsylvania--History
Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Pennsylvania--Race relations--History--18th century
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; ONE: FALSE DAWN; TWO: THEATRE OF BLOODSHED AND RAPINE; THREE: ZEALOTS; FOUR: A WAR OF WORDS; FIVE: UNRAVELING; Appendix: Identifying the Conestoga Indians and the Paxton Boys; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Summary:
- William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a ""holy experiment"" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans. Kenny recounts how rapacious frontier settlers, most of them of Ulster extraction, began to encroach on Indian land as squatters, while William Penn's sons cast off their father's Quaker heritage and turned instead to fraud, intimidation, and eventually violenc
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936712928702486
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771530-3
0-19-975852-2
1-282-32831-X
9786612328312
0-19-973445-3 - OCLC Number:
- 463299235
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