02978nam 2200661Ia 450 991045541410332120200520144314.01-282-32831-X97866123283120-19-973445-3(CKB)1000000000799129(EBL)472072(OCoLC)463299235(SSID)ssj0000341318(PQKBManifestationID)11257585(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341318(PQKBWorkID)10390018(PQKB)11705932(MiAaPQ)EBC472072(Au-PeEL)EBL472072(CaPaEBR)ebr10335209(CaONFJC)MIL232831(EXLCZ)99100000000079912920080902d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPeaceable kingdom lost[electronic resource] the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment /Kevin KennyOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-975394-6 0-19-533150-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction; ONE: FALSE DAWN; TWO: THEATRE OF BLOODSHED AND RAPINE; THREE: ZEALOTS; FOUR: A WAR OF WORDS; FIVE: UNRAVELING; Appendix: Identifying the Conestoga Indians and the Paxton Boys; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; IndexWilliam 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 violencPaxton BoysVigilantesPennsylvaniaHistory18th centuryIndians of North AmericaPennsylvaniaHistory18th centuryCulture conflictPennsylvaniaHistoryPennsylvaniaHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775PennsylvaniaRace relationsHistory18th centuryElectronic books.Paxton Boys.VigilantesHistoryIndians of North AmericaHistoryCulture conflictHistory.323.1197074809/033Kenny Kevin1960-850128MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455414103321Peaceable kingdom lost2472899UNINA