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

Name: Peaceable Kingdom Lost The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment
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ISBN: 9780195331509

ISBN-10: 0195331508

ISBN-13: 9780195331509

Edition: 2009

Authors: Kevin Kenny

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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 instead to fraud, intimidation, and eventually violence during the French and Indian War. In 1763, a group of frontier settlers known as the Paxton Boys…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/30/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.18" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction



False Dawn



Newcomers



Settlers and Squatters



Expansion



Fraud



A Hunger for Land



Theatre of Bloodshed and Rapine



Braddock's Defeat



Pennsylvania Goes to War



Negotiations



Westward Journeys



Conquest



Zealots



Indian Uprising



Rangers



Conestoga Indiantown



Lancaster Workhouse



Panic in Philadelphia



A War of Words



The Declaration and Remonstrance



A Proper Spirit of Jealousy and Revenge



Christian White Savages



Under the Tyrant's Foot



Unraveling



Killers



Mercenaries



Revolutionaries


Appendix: Identifying the Conestoga Indians and the Paxton Boys


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index