Andrew R. Murphy, John Smolenski, Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann

The Worlds of William Penn

Herausgeber: Murphy, Andrew R; Smolenski, John

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Produktbeschreibung

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. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781978801813
• ISBN-10: 1978801815
• Artikelnr.: 52610330

Autorenporträt

Murphy, Andrew R

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: William Penn and his Worlds – Andrew R. Murphy and John
Smolenski 
    
Part I Materials, History, Memory
1.The Elusive Body of William Penn - Elizabeth Milroy
2.Where William Penn Slept (And Why it Matters) - Catharine Dann Roeber
3.Beyond the Bounds: Exploitation and Empire in the First Map of
Pennsylvania - Emily Mann
Part II Irish Worlds
4.William Penn, William Petty, and Surveying: the Irish Connection - Marcus
Gallo
5.The Irish Worlds of William Penn: Culture, Conflict and Connections -
Audrey Horning
6.The Roads to and From Cork: The Irish Origins of William Penn’s Theory of
Religious Toleration - Andrew R. Murphy
Part III Restoration Worlds
7.New Worlds and Holy Experiments in the Restoration Literature of Milton,
Bunyan, and Penn - Elizabeth Sauer
8.William Penn and James II - Scott Sowerby
9.William Penn, German Pietist(?) - Patrick M. Erben
Part IV American Worlds
10.“Rancontyn Marenit”: Lenape Peacemaking Before William Penn - Michael
Goode
11.William Penn, John Winthrop, and Colonial Political Science - Alexander
Mazzaferro
12.Religion and Revolution in New England: 1689 - Sarah A. Morgan Smith
Quaker Worlds
13.William Penn as Preface Writer, Historian, and Controversialist - Catie
Gill
14.Quakers and Political Discernment in the Early Restoration - Adrian
Chastain Weimer
15.From Puritan to Quaker: Mary Dyer and Puritan-Quaker Conversion in the
Seventeenth-Century Atlantic - Rachel Love Monroy
Part V Imperial Worlds
16.Pennsylvania’s Religious Freedom in Comparative Colonial Context - Evan
Haefeli
17.William Penn and Security Communities: A Career - Patrick Cecil
18.William Penn’s Imperial Landscape: Improvement, Political Economy, and
Colonial Agriculture in the Pennsylvania Project - Shuichi Wanibuchi