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Author Kenny, Kevin, 1960-

Title Peaceable kingdom lost : the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment / Kevin Kenny
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Newcomers -- Settlers and squatters -- Expansion -- Fraud -- A hunger for land -- Braddock's defeat -- Pennsylvania goes to war -- Negotiations -- Westward journeys -- Conquest -- Indian uprising -- Rangers -- Conestoga Indiantown -- Lancaster workhouse -- Panic in Philadelphia -- The Declaration and Remonstrance -- A proper spirit of jealousy and revenge -- Christian white savages -- Under the tyrant's foot -- Killers -- Mercenaries -- Revolutionaries
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Philosophy
SUBJECT Penn, William, 1644-1718 fast
Penn, William 1644-1718 gnd
Penn, William. idsbb
Penn, William. swd
Paxton Boys gnd
Subject Paxton Boys.
Vigilantes -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century
Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century
Culture conflict -- Pennsylvania -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Culture conflict
Indians of North America
Paxton Boys
Philosophy
Race relations
Vigilantes
Ethnische Beziehungen
Indigenes Volk
Kolonialismus
Kulturkontakt
Rassenintegration
Rassenverfolgung
Religiöse Toleranz
Indianerpolitik -- USA -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Frontier -- Indianer.
Kväkare -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1700-talet.
Indianer -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1700-talet.
SUBJECT Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85099522
Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
Subject Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199734450
0199734453