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
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SUBJECT |
Penn, William, 1644-1718 fast |
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Penn, William 1644-1718 gnd |
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Penn, William. idsbb |
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Penn, William. swd |
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Paxton Boys gnd |
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Paxton Boys.
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Vigilantes -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century
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Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century
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Culture conflict -- Pennsylvania -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Culture conflict
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Indians of North America
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Paxton Boys
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Philosophy
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Race relations
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Vigilantes
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Indigenes Volk
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Kolonialismus
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Kulturkontakt
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Rassenintegration
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Rassenverfolgung
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Religiöse Toleranz
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Indianerpolitik -- USA -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
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Frontier -- Indianer.
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Kväkare -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1700-talet.
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Indianer -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1700-talet.
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SUBJECT |
Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85099522
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Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
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Subject |
Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780199734450 |
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0199734453 |
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