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Peaceable Kingdom Lost : The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment

ISBN: 9780195331509 | 0195331508
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/21/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 instea... MORE
Introductionp. 1
False Dawn
Newcomersp. 11
Settlers and Squattersp. 23
Expansionp. 31
Fraudp. 41
A Hunger for Landp. 50
Theatre of Bloodshed and Rapine
Braddock's Defeatp. 65
Pennsylvania Goes to Warp. 76
Negotiationsp. 83
Westward Journeys... MORE
Conquestp. 105
Zealots
Indian Uprisingp. 115
Rangersp. 123
Conestoga Indiantownp. 130
Lancaster Workhousep. 140
Panic in Philadelphiap. 147
A War of Words
The Declaration and Remonstrancep. 159
A Proper Spirit of Jealousy and Revengep. 171
Christian White Savagesp. 182
Under the Tyrant's Footp. 192
Unraveling
Killersp. 205
Mercenariesp. 217
Revolutionariesp. 226
Appendix: Identifying the Conestoga Indians and the Paxton Boysp. 235
Acknowledgmentsp. 239
Abbreviationsp. 241
Notesp. 243
Bibliographyp. 265
Indexp. 285
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Kevin Kenny is Professor of History at Boston College where he specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Atlantic migration. He is author of Making Sense of the Molly Maguires and The American Irish: A History, and editor of Ireland and the British Empire.

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