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MANN, CHARLES C.
Charles C. Mann's groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, now expanded and updated in this new edition, radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

Vintage Books Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Authority And The Early Quakers

BY JACK DOBBS
Early Quakers recognized neither the bible, nor the church , and certainly not the state, as their supreme authority. They claimed the spirit of Christ, the inward light, as the authority in which they placed their absolute trust. They believed that if only they could understand it, that spirit could give unity to a Quaker meeting as it jointly searched for the will of god. Dobbs looks at these ideas and how they began and changed in the early years of Quakerism.

Martin Hartog 2006 269 PP. Paper

$35.00 (in stock)

The Beginnings Of Quakerism To 1660

BY WILLIAM BRAITHWAITE
Standard history of the early days of the Quaker movement, based largely on the writings of the first Friends. Second edition revised by Henry J. Cadbury.

Sessions 1981 607 PP. Cloth

$30.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Biographical Dictionary Of British Quakers

In Commerce & Industry 1775 -1920

COMPILED BY EDWARD MILLIGAN
Many years in the making, the former librarian and archivist at Friends House in London has garnered and written 2,800 biographies of Friends active in industry or commerce. The large double columned pages mean this really is a treasure house of information for historians and genealogists. Indexed by occupation, place, apprentice master, and school attended. 8 appendices and 50 pages of illustrations.

Sessions 2007 605 PP. Paper

$60.00 (in stock)

The Concurrence And Unanimity Of The People Called Quaker

As Evidenced By Some Of Their Sermons

FIRST PUBLISHED BY ANDREW SOWLE IN 1694
A collection of transcriptions of the preaching done by 14 Friends between 1688 and 1694. First published in 1694, here reprinted with a new introduction and much additional background information. Included are sermons by Robert Barclay, George Whitehead, John Bowater, Charles Marshall, William Bingley, John Butcher, James Park, William Dewsberry, Francis Camfield, William Penn, Richard Ashby, Samuel Waldenfield, John Vaughton and Francis Stamper

Foundation Publications 2010 265 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Constructive Spirit

Quakers In Revolutionary Russia

BY DAVID MCFADDEN AND CLAIRE GORFINKEL, OVERVIEW BY SERGEIT NIKITIN
In the chaotic aftermath of WWI, the newly-formed American Friends Service Committee sent a team of six women to join their British counterparts who were helping refugees fleeing from Poland into Russia. Quaker workers stayed on through the famine and the early years of the Bolshevik revolution, providing innovative relief and reconstruction programs, all the while witnessing to Friends testimonies. Constructive Spirit includes dramatic first-hand narratives of their courageous adventures. It examines America's responses to the emerging Communist nation and issues of service, advocacy and witness that Quaker organizations are still trying to balance today. AFSC.

Intentional Productions 2004 232 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Daughters Of Light

Quaker Women Preaching And Prophesying In The Colonies And Abroad, 1700-1775

BY REBECCA LARSON
"With meticulous scholarship and graceful style, Rebecca Larson tells the story of the eighteenth century Quaker women ministers who criss-crossed the Atlantic, preaching the Inner Light, and changing forever the perception of women's roles. The authority with which Quaker women later spoke in the reform movements can be traced to these spiritual predecessors." - Margaret Hope Bacon.

University of North Carolina Press 2000 416 PP. Paper

$30.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Diary Of Sidney George Fisher Covering The Years 1834-18

A Philadelphia Perspective

BY SIDNEY GEORGE FISHER
SECONDHAND COPY. Margaret Bacon's volume. Not by any means pristine, but a good copy of a 1967 book , that looks like a 1767 book. Binding very slightly cracked. Sidney George Fisher was no Quaker, saying among other things that slavery was evil but necessary... however he was a great diarist and candidly and amusingly commenting on matters political topical and personal from the viewpoint of a rich male who never had to work because of his inherited money. These years are the ones spent in or near Philadelphia.

Historical society of Pennsylvania 1967 625 PP. Cloth

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Douglass And Lincoln

How A Revolutionary Black Leader & A Reluctant Liberator Struggled To End Slavery & Save The Union

BY PAUL AND STEPHEN KENDRICK
The influence Douglass and Lincoln had on each other and on the nation altered the course of slavery and the outcome of the Civil War. Although Abraham Lincoln deeply opposed the existence of slavery, he saw his mission throughout much of the Civil War as preserving the Union, with or without slavery. Frederick Douglass, a former slave, passionately believed the war's central mission to be the total abolition of slavery. During their meetings between 1863 & 1865, and through reading each other's writings, they managed to forge a strong, mutual understanding and respect that helped convince Lincoln the war could not be truly won without black soldiers and permanent emancipation.

Walker 2008 306 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Early Friends And Ministry

BY MARTHA PAXSON GRUNDY
What did the first Friends actually have to say about ministry? Marty Grundy provides a short but thorough guide to this aspect of early Quaker thought. In addition, she gives us her incisive analysis, examining today's thought and practice concerning ministry in the light of early Friends' intentions.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2009 28 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Friends General Conference (204)

100 Years (1900-2000)

BY THE FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
A special issue of Quaker History published on the occasion of the anniversary of FGC. Contributors include Deborah Haines, Thomas Hamm, Mary Ellen Singsen and Chuck Fager.

Friends Historical Association 2000 76 PP. Paper

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George Bishop

The Story Of A 17th Century Soldier Turned Quaker

BY MARYANN FEOLA
The story of a Bristol brewer who became a soldier in the New Model Army and a very radical thinker. He was convinced as a Quaker in 1654, and between 1660 and 1668 published several books including "New England judged, being a Brief Relation of the Sufferings of the Quakers in that part of America from the Beginning of the 5th Month, 1656, to the End of the 10th Month, 1660."

Sessions of York 1988 174 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Heaven On Earth

Quakers And The Second Coming

BY BEN PINK-DANDELION, DOUGLAS GWYN, TIMOTHY PEAT
Almost impossible to summarize, a book exploding with ideas and insights. The experience of Christ was so central to the lives of early friends, that it was as if they were living in the second coming. Peat and Gwyn look at Paul's Gospel, and Quaker beliefs and practices. Pink Dandelion looks at how this unrealized idea of the second coming has influenced Quaker thought today. All copies suffer from poor quality binding.keep a rubber band handy!

Curlew 1998 271 PP. Paper

$22.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

A History Of Southland College

The Society Of Friends And Black Education In Arkansas

BY THOMAS KENNEDY
This work focuses on dedicated Quaker missionaries in post-Civil War Arkansas. In 1864 Alida and Calvin Clark, two abolitionist members of the Religious Society of Friends from Indiana, went on a mission trip to Helena, Arkansas. The Clarks had come to render temporary relief to displaced war orphans but instead found a lifelong calling. During their time in Arkansas, they started the school that became Southland College, which was the first institution of higher education for blacks west of the Mississippi, and they set up the first predominately black monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in North America.

University of Arkansas Press 2009 424 PP. Cloth

$40.00 (in stock)

The History Of The Penn Treaty Park

BY KENNETH MILANO
The treatment of the area around the spot that William Penn met and made agreement with the local Indian chiefs (and the Elm tree under which they sat) has much to say about the relation of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania to William Penn's Quaker ideals. This nicely illustrated history of that locale and the events around it is full of interesting and telling details.

The History Press 2009 158 PP. Paper

$19.99 (in stock)

The Holy Spirit In Puritan Faith And Experience

BY GEOFFREY NUTTALL
Nuttall establishes the primacy of the doctrines of the Holy Spirit in 17C English Puritanism and demonstrates the continuity of the Reformation tradition from the more conservative views of Luther to the more radical interpretations of the Quakers. He illuminates prominent spokesmen, including Richard Baxter, John Owen, and George Fox. In a new Introduction, Peter Lake discusses the relevance of Nuttall's book to, and its influence on, major works in seventeenth-century English history written since 1946.

University of california Press 1992 192 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Imaginary Friends

Representing Quakers In American Culture, 1650-1950

BY JAMES EMMETT RYAN
Since their arrival in the American colonies in the 1650s, Quakers' spiritual values, social habits and their example - whether real or imagined-has served as a religious conscience for an expanding nation. Spanning four centuries, Imaginary Friends takes readers through these representations of Quaker life in a range of literary and visual genres, from theological debates, missionary work records, political theory, and biography to fiction, poetry, theater, and film. It illustrates ways that these "imaginary" Friends have offered a radical model of morality, piety, and anti-modernity against which the evolving culture has measured itself.

University of Wisconsin 2009 285 PP. Paper

$26.95 (in stock)

Iroquios Diplomacy

2008 260 PP. Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

James Ramsay (1275)

The Unknown Abolitionist

SHYLLON, FOLARIN
SECONDHAND COPY. Hardback in good condition, with dust jacket showing a little age in its coloring. Reverend James Ramsay was one of the earliest voices of the anti-slavery movement in Britain. Upon the publication of an essay he wrote in 1784 questioning and criticizing the slave trade, Ramsay endured many personal attacks and abuses from his enemies. Despite this, he continued to write on the subject and act as an inspiration for future abolitionists in their fight to end slavery in Britain.

Cannongate 1977 128 PP. Cloth

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Jewish Life In Philadelphia 1830-1940 (1281)

FRIEDMAN, MURRAY, ED
SECONDHAND COPY. Hardback in fine condition except for a small tear in the dust jacket. Philadelphia Jews, in the last half of the twentieth century, became a force to reckon with in the cultural, political and economic life of the region. From the poor neighborhoods of original immigrant settlement, in South and West Philadelphia, Jews have made, as Murray Friedman recounts, the move from "outsiders" to "insiders" in Philadelphia life. Essays by a diverse range of contributors tell the story of this transformation in many spheres of life, both in and out of the Jewish community.

Ishi Publications 1983 313 PP. Cloth

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The Legacy They Gave To Us

Early Quakers In Strang Parish, Norway

BY MATILDA HANSEN
American Friend Matilda Hansen traces the history of many of her Norwegian ancest ors. Woven into this story is the history of these Norwegian Quakers and others, who struggled for religious freedom in Norway for years, and eventually immigrated to America.

Commentary Press of Wyoming 2010 243 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Let Your Words Be Few

Symbolism Of Speaking And Silence Among Seventeenth-century Quakers

BYRICHARD BAUMAN
Reprinted from the Cambridge University Press original. Amid the spiritual and intellectual turmoil of seventeenth-century England, the Quakers emerged and grew into a distinct and enduring religious movement. This book offers a fresh and striking insight into early Quaker history through a study of their distinctive ways of speaking, which, together with their use of silence, served as a specific identifying feature of the movement..

Wheatmark 2008 180 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

The London Friends' Meetings

Showing The Rise Of The Society Of Friends In London

BY WILLIAM BECK , THOMAS BALL, SIMON DIXON, PETER DANIELS
Reprint of the 1869 classic history of Quakers in London, with a new introduction by Simon Dixon and Peter Daniels and new illustrations and index. The book affectionately known as "Beck and Ball" is a comprehensive survey which describes not only the buildings where the meetings took place, but also how they were organized and the personalities involved, with telling details of their lives as Londoners. To do this the authors made a systematic reading of all the minute books of the London meetings, combined with the writings of George Fox and others, plus their own extensive knowledge gathered from experience in various capacities.

Pronoun Press 2009 520 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

The Lost Secret Of The Liberty Bell

BY SALLY RICKERMAN
Sally Rickerman looks at the evidence that the Liberty Bell, with its famous quotation was ordered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Penn's "Charter of liberties" (more correctly the Charter of privileges). Penn's ideas, his charter and the early history of the commonwealth are explored as they relate to the ordering and casting of the bell.

Troll Press 2009 24 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Lost Voices Of The Edwardians (5190)

MAX ARTHUR
SECONDHAND COPY -hardback with dustjacket. An interesting collection of oral history mixed with pictures and early documentaries.No instant quaker conection I can see but some fascinating sories nonetheless.

HarperPress 2006 424 PP. Cloth

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Monteverde Jubillee Family Album (923)

1951-2001
SECONDHAND COPY, big floppy paperback that was never in great shape, but is perfectly readable. Very rarely seen story of the Quakers in Monteverde told by lots of individual sories, poems anecdotes and pictures. Just noticed how badly its bound- but it is awonderful book none the less

Monteverde 2001 282 PP. Paper

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A New And Untried Course (6334)

STEVEN PEITZMAN
SECONDHAND paperback in very good condition. Subtitled: Women's Medical College and Medical College of Pennysylvania, 1850-1998. An instution founded in 1850 by a group of reform minded (male) Quakers.

Rutgers University Press 2000 322 PP. Paper

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Opening The Quaker Time Capsule

BY THOMAS HAMM
"The author chose `Opening the Quaker Time Capsule' as the subject of this 2001 Weed Lecture. His review of Quaker mores and thought at the turn of the 20th century holds insights and lessons, as well as amusing sidelights, on Quakerism for us as we begin the 21st. All manner of Friends can benefit from this survey of where we have been as we consider where we are and where we are going." - Hugh Barbour, from the Introduction

Beacon Hill Friends House 2004 27 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Peaceable Kingdom Lost

The Paxton Boys And The Destruction Of William Penn's Holy Experiment

BY KEVIN KENNY
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 concludes that the Boys' attitude toward the Indians and their attacks on the ruling powers presaged the military and political activities of the American Revolution and the new nation's mistreatment of the Indians." - Publishers Weekly

Oxford University Press 2009 304 PP. Cloth

$29.95 (in stock)

Peculiar Power

A Quaker Woman Preacher In Eighteenth-century America

BY CRISTINE LEVENDUSKI
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755) wrote "Remarkable Experiences". In it she recorded her religious search but also told of the highly unusual events that had shaped her life: eloping at 14, being kidnapped, preventing a shipboard mutiny, enduring a harsh term of indentured servitude, and suffering relentless religious persecution. Her experiences as an English immigrant, a servant, an itinerant, a Quaker, and a woman placed her far outside the colonial cultural mainstream, but drawing power from her marginalized position she became in her thirties a respected leader among Quakers, thereby breaking the "suffer and be still" silence imposed on 18C women.

Smithsonian 1996 171 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)