Quakers and the American Family British Settlement in the Delaware Valley

Name: Quakers and the American Family British Settlement in the Delaware Valley
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ISBN: 9780195049756

ISBN-10: 0195049756

ISBN-13: 9780195049756

Edition: 1988

Authors: Barry Levy

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Americans have an unusually strong family ideology. We believe that morally self-sufficient nuclear households must serve as the foundation of a republican society. In this brilliant history, Barry Levy traces this contemporary view of family life all the way back to the Quakers. _____ Levy argues that the Quakers brought a new vision of family and social life to America--one that contrasted sharply with the harsh, formal world of the Puritans in New England. The Quaker emphasis was on affection, friendship and hospitality. They stressed the importance of women in the home, and of self-disciplined, non-coercive childrearing. _____ This book explains how and why the Quakers' had such a…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/30/1988
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 258
Size: 5.88" wide x 8.50" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Barry Levy is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is author of Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley.



Preface


Introduction Intimate Frontiers



Middling Roots



Spiritual Tribalism



A Family of Great Price



Quaker Domesticity with the Grain



Quakers on Top



Wives-Ministers-Mothers



Saints and Republicans


Appendix: Comparative Statistics on Quaker Families and Communities


Notes


Index