The Worlds of William Penn

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-9788-0177-6
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 438 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career. Contributors analyze the worlds that shaped Penn and the worlds that he shaped: Irish, English, American, Quaker, and imperial. The eighteen chapters in The Worlds of William Penn shed critical new light on Penn's life and legacy, examining his early and often-overlooked time in Ireland; the literary, political, and theological legacies of his public career during the Restoration and after the 1688 Revolution; his role as proprietor of Pennsylvania; his religious leadership in the Quaker movement, and as a loyal lieutenant to George Fox, and his important role in the broader British imperial project. Coinciding with the 300th anniversary of Penn's death the time is right for this examination of Penn's importance both in his own time and to the ongoing campaign for political and religious liberty.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: William Penn and his Worlds – Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski    
- Materials, History, Memory - 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
- Irish Worlds
- 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
- Restoration Worlds
- 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
- American Worlds
- William Penn, John Winthrop, and Colonial Political Science - Alexander Mazzaferro
- Religion and Revolution in New England: 1689 - Sarah A. Morgan Smith
- Quaker Worlds - William Penn as Preface Writer, Historian, and Controversialist - Catie Gill
- Quakers and Political Discernment 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
- Imperial Worlds - 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

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew R. Murphy is a professor of political science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is the author of numerous titles, including William Penn: A Life.
 
John Smolenski is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania.