Peaceable kingdom lost [[electronic resource] ] : the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment / / Kevin Kenny

• Autore: Kenny Kevin <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1197074809/033
• Soggetto topico: Paxton Boys; Vigilantes - Pennsylvania - History - 18th century; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - History - 18th century; Culture conflict - Pennsylvania - History
• Soggetto geografico: Pennsylvania History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Pennsylvania Race relations History 18th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 violenc
• Titolo autorizzato: Peaceable kingdom lost
• ISBN: 0-19-771530-3; 0-19-975852-2; 1-282-32831-X; 9786612328312; 0-19-973445-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807358903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II