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

ISBN-13: 9780195331509 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 304 str.

Kevin Kenny

Opis

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.

O autorze

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.