"The most important book on eighteenth-century American Quakerism."--Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783 offers a detailed history of the withdrawal of the Society of Friends from mainstream America in the years between 1748 and the end of the American Revolution. Jack D. Marietta examines the causes, course, and consequences, both social and political, of the Quakers' retreat from prominent positions in civil government while at the same time developing a more distinctive and "purified" religious community. These changes...
"The most important book on eighteenth-century American Quakerism."--Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles The Reformation of America...
Eighteenth-century Pennsylvanians killed and abused each other at a pace that outstripped most of their English and American contemporaries and rivaled some of the worst crime rates in the following 200 years. They victimized their kin and neighbors as well as their enemies and rivals, and the powerful as well as the weak. And yet the land they populated was captioned the "Holy Experiment," renowned as the "best poor man's country on earth," and memorialized as the "Peaceable Kingdom." Troubled Experiment chronicles the extravagant crime in this unlikely place and explains how the...
Eighteenth-century Pennsylvanians killed and abused each other at a pace that outstripped most of their English and American contemporaries and riv...
