Meeting House And Counting House

The Quaker Merchants Of Colonial Philadelphia 1682-1763

BY FREDERICK TOLLES
Uses primary sources to document the economic, social, and intellectual life of Friends between 1682 and 1763. He has drawn a thoroughly uncompromising picture of what happened to this religious community with the achievement of prosperity, social prestige, and political power. William Penn's 'holy experiment' failed, but Quaker contributions to medicine, government, and education cannot be underestimated, and this chapter of colonial history is of immense importance to a fuller understanding of American character and society. First published in 1963.

WW Norton 2007 324 PP. Paper

$24.00 (in stock)

Quakers And The Atlantic Culture (11131)

BY FREDERICK TOLLES
Secondhand Copy. Hardback in clean if frayed condition with slight yellowing from the Stony Run Library with its library card envelope inside the back cover and a scotch taped "T" on the spine. The historian/author of Meeting House and Counting House, and studies of James Logan here studies the "relationship of the Society of Friends to its social and intellectual environment", looking at the Quaker esthetic, politics and the general culture from the rural Friends to the Transatlantic.

Macmillan 1960 160 PP. Cloth

$16.00 USED - availability checked May 17th 3:40am EDT