Friends and Strangers The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania

Name: Friends and Strangers The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania
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ISBN: 9780812222036

ISBN-10: 0812222032

ISBN-13: 9780812222036

Edition: 2010

Authors: John Smolenski

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In its early years, William Penn's "Peaceable Kingdom" was anything but. Pennsylvania's governing institutions were faced with daunting challenges: Native Americans proved far less docile than Penn had hoped, the colony's non-English settlers were loath to accept Quaker authority, and Friends themselves were divided by grievous factional struggles. Yet out of this chaos emerged a colony hailed by contemporary and modern observers alike as the most liberal, tolerant, and harmonious in British America.InFriends and Strangers, John Smolenski argues that Pennsylvania's early history can best be understood through the lens of creolization—the process by which Old World habits, values, and…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 5/25/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English