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Title:
The worlds of William Penn / edited by Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski.
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
vii, 428 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Penn, William,--1644-1718.
Penn, William,--1644-1718--Influence.
Penn, William,--1644-1718.
Pioneers--Pennsylvania--Biography.
Quakers--Pennsylvania--Biography.
Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pioneers.
Quakers.
Pennsylvania.
1600-1775
Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Other Authors:
Murphy, Andrew R., 1967- editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00099252
Smolenski, John, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005029328
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The elusive body of William Penn / Elizabeth Milroy -- Where William Penn slept (and why it matters) / Catharine Dann Roeber -- Beyond the bounds : exploitation and empire in the first map of Pennsylvania / Emily Mann -- William Penn, William Petty, and surveying : the Irish connection / Marcus Gallo -- The Irish worlds of William Penn : culture, conflict, and connections / Audrey Horning -- The roads to and from Cork : the Irish origins of William Penn's theory of religious toleration / Andrew R. Murphy -- New worlds and holy experiments in the restoration literature of Milton, Bunyan, and Penn / Elizabeth Sauer -- William Penn and James II / Scott Sowerby -- William Penn, German pietist(?) / Patrick M. Erben -- "Rancontyn Marenit" : Lenape peacemaking before William Penn / Michael Goode -- William Penn, John Winthrop, and colonial political science / Alexander Mazzaferro -- Religion and revolution in New England : 1689 / Sarah A. Morgan Smith -- William Penn as preface writer, historian, and controversialist / Catie Gill -- Quakers, Puritans, and the problem of godly loyalty in the early Restoration / Adrian Chastain Weimer -- From Puritan to Quaker : Mary Dyer and Puritan-Quaker conversion in the seventeenth-century Atlantic / Rachel Love Monroy -- Pennsylvania's religious freedom in comparative colonial context / Evan Haefeli -- William Penn and security communities : a career / Patrick Cecil -- William Penn's imperial landscape : improvement, political economy, and colonial agriculture in the Pennsylvania project / Shuichi Wanibuchi.
Summary:
"Edited collection taking a wide-ranging look at William Penn's life and legacy, spanning everything from art history to literature, to history, to political theory, to American studies, to British studies."--Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1978801777
9781978801776
1978801815
9781978801813
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1027770379
LCCN:
2018006106
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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