The Quaker Approach To Contemporary Problems. (13013)

EDITED BY JOHN KAVANAUGH
Ex library reprint from 1970 or the 1953 original. Edited by John Kavanagh as PR director of AFSC. Contains articles on subjects like science, civil liberties, business by well known Friends such as Kathleen Lonsdale, Henry Cadbury and Kenneth Boulding.Good condition. SECONDHAND BOOK.

Greenwood Press 1953 241 PP. Cloth

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The Quaker Community On Barbados

Challenging The Culture Of The Planter Class

BY LARRY CRAGG
Prior to the Quakers' large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. But on this island of sugar plantations, Quakers confronted material temptations and had to temper founder George Fox's admonitions regarding slavery with the demoralizing realities of daily life in a slave-based economy-one where most Quakers owned slaves. Gragg shows how the community dealt with these contradictions as it struggled to change the culture of the richest of England's seventeenth-century colonies.

University of Missouri Press 2009 224 PP. Cloth

$39.95 (in stock)

Quaker History, Vol 97, Fall 2008, No 2 (201)

VARIOUS AUTHORS
Jews and Pharisees in early Quaker polemic: Clay Boggs; Quakers and Calvinists in making NY prison discipline: Jennifer Graber; That Blessed Community: FGC and the New Meetings 1915-45:Roger Hansen. .

Friends Historical Association 2008 63 PP. Paper

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Quakers In Canada (5176)

A History

BY ARTHUR DORLAND
Ex Stony Run Library copy, good condition with tatty dust jacket. Published in 1968 by Ryerson Press, 360 pp with map endpapers and black and white photographs throughout. A revision of Professor Dorland's 1927 edition, written 41 years before, has the often overlooked history of the Society in Canada, interrelated to Quakerism in America and Britain. Written with an international perspective.

Ryerson Press 1968 360 PP. Cloth

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Quakers In Conflict

BY LINDA WILLARD
Not to be confused with Larry Ingles book on the Hicksite Orthodox split. This book tells the tales of Quakers who felt constrained to break a Quaker testimony, mostly by going to war, and to separate from their Meeting. Includes the founder of the Marines, Samuel Nicholas buried at Arch St Meeting in Philadelphia and many many others - including Annie Oakley.

Tate Publishing 2009 256 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Quakers, Newgate And The Old Bailey

BY SIMON WEBB
Quakers were involved with the Old Bailey and the notorious Newgate Prison for over 200 years. Their number included, victims of injustice, a few Quaker criminals and prison reformers such as Elizabeth Fry. Drawing on the Newgate Calendar, The Proceedings of the Old Bailey and other sources, this book tells a true story of Quakers, crime, justice and reform from 1652 to 1851.

Simon Webb 2008 76 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Revolutionary Quaker Witness

Learning From The Lamb's War Of The 1650's

BY DOUG GWYN
What were they thinking? What were the spiritual and social roots of the activism our Quaker forbearers were known for? Doug Gwyn provides a short guide to the history of Quaker beginnings, focussing on the aspects that enabled the first Friends to truly 'tear down the pillars of the world' as one version of the George Fox song has it. Gwyn applies his understanding of this dynamic to our current sense of impasse in the face of the world's ills, and comes up with some challenging answers.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2009 34 PP. Paper

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Roll, Jordan, Roll (45637)

The World The Slaves Made

BY EUGENE D. GENOVESE
Secondhand Copy. Hardback with jacket (slight tear) in fair to good condition. Presented by the H. H. Mosher Fund of NYYM to Margaret H. and S. Allen Bacon, 1975. The then Marxist historian presents his Bancroft Prize winning reexamination of American slavery --more from the slaves point of view than previous histories.

Pantheon 1972 823 PP. Cloth

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Scottish Quakers And Aearly America (224)

BY DAVID DOBSON
SECONDHAND COPY, slim pamphlet that looks older than it is.Basicly just alist in alphabetical order with as many details as he could find of any Scotts Quakers who emigrated in that 50 year time period.

David Dobson 1998 52 PP. Paper

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The Second Period Of Quakerism

BY WILLIAM BRAITHWAITE
Sequel to The Beginnings of Quakerism , this volume covers the years 1660 to 1725. Second edition revised by Henry J. Cadbury.

Sessions of York 1979 607 PP. Paper

$28.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Seekers Found

Atonement In Early Quaker Experience

BY DOUGLAS GWYN
"The main subjects are the Seekers of the 1640s and their forebears, and the Friends who catalyzed many Seeker themes into a dynamic, transformative movement. Gwyn's excellent study demonstrates the unique charisma of early Friends, their ability to hold opposing forces and ideas in creative tension, thus unleashing great spiritual energy. By comparison modern seekers, including many of today's Friends, are experiencing some of the same stages Gwyn identifies in those three centuries years earlier, but without embodying the tension." - Martha Paxson Grundy

Pendle Hill 2000 410 PP. Paper

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The Sisterhood (5334)

BY MARCIA COHEN
Nice SECONDHAND COPY with dustcover. subtitled "The true story of the women who changed the world". In this epic drama of personality and politics, passion and ambition, courage and betrayal, Cohen tells the fascinating inside story of the feminist revolution through the lives of the women who made it and were sometimes unmade by it--Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, and Kate Millett.

s & S 1988 445 PP. Cloth

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Southern Discomfort (56632)

Women's Activism In Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s

BY NANCY HEWITT
Secondhand Copy. Hardback in new condition. Illustrated. Notes and Index. A study of the Cigar City's interactions among Cuban and Italian immigrants, and the native white and African American communities in the formation of an array of voluntary and reform organizations. "Local history at its best" - Robert P. Ingalls.

U of Illinois 2001 376 PP. Cloth

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Sufferings Of Early Quakers - Yorkshire

BY JOSEPH BESSE
"Ever since it appeared in 1753, Joseph Besse's Collection of Sufferings of the People called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in 17th century Quakerism at a local level. . . . Besse drew together the most interesting or indicative examples of what individual Quakers had suffered for the Truth between approximately 1650 and 1689." - Michael Gandy.

Sessions 2001 176 PP. Paper

$38.00 (in stock)

Sufferings Of Early Quakers - Westmorland

Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland, Isle Of Man, Lancashire

BY JOSEPH BESSE
"Ever since it appeared in 1753, Joseph Besse's Collection of Sufferings of the People called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in 17th century Quakerism at a local level. . . . Besse drew together the most interesting or indicative examples of what individual Quakers had suffered for the Truth between approximately 1650 and 1689." - Michael Gandy. Four volumes available.

Sessions 2001 330 PP. Paper

$30.00 (in stock)

Sufferings Of Early Quakers - America

New England And Maryland, West Indies And Bermuda

BY JOSEPH BESSE
"Ever since it appeared in 1753, Joseph Besse's Collection of Sufferings of the People called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in 17th century Quakerism at a local level. . . . Besse drew together the most interesting or indicative examples of what individual Quakers had suffered for the Truth between approximately 1650 and 1689." - Michael Gandy. Four volumes available.

Sessions 2001 391 PP. Paper

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Sufferings Of Early Quakers - London

And Middlesex 1655 To 1690

BY JOSEPH BESSE
Ever since it first appeared in 1753 Besse's collection of sufferings of the people called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in seventeenth century Quakerism. Contains the most interesting or illustrative examples of what individual Quakers suffered in ways like fines or imprisonment for their Quaker faith. Sessions are reprinting the original text by area. Indexed by Place and name.

Sessions 1753 176 PP Paper

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Tasting Freedom

Octavius Catto And The Battle For Equality In Civil War America

BY DANIEL BIDDLE, MURRAY DUBIN
Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an activist who fought for equal rights. With his murder in 1871 during an election day race riot, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer--one who risked his life a century before Selma and Birmingham. This book painstakingly chronicles the life of this charismatic black leader and presents little-known stories of Catto and the men and women who struggled to change America. This book will change your understanding of civil rights history.

Temple University press 2010 614 PP. Cloth

$35.00 (in stock)

A To Z Of The Friends (quakers)

BY MARGERY POST-ABBOTT, MARY ELLEN CHIJIOKE, BEN PINK-DANDELION, JOHN WILLIAM OLIVER JR
"This volume attempts to describe the scope and history of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) worldwide and the modern diversity of its theology and practice. We have sought to provide a balanced view of the many varieties of Quaker faith and practice. Various Friends have long wanted a dictionary or encyclopedia that might serve as a widely accepted reference for distinctive Quaker language and practices as well as an easily accessible guide for the general reader who knows little about the Religious Society of Friends." - from the Preface

Scarecrow Press 2006 376 PP. Paper

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Towards Tragedy/reclaiming Hope

Literature, Theology And Sociology In Conversation

BY BEN PINK-DANDELION, DOUGLAS GWYN, RACHEL MUERS, BRIAN PHILLIPS, AND RICHARD STRUM
The 'death of tragedy' in the modern era has been debated in recent years, largely in terms of literature and western culture in general. Today, any catastrophe is likely to be labeled a 'tragedy', without any inference of a larger, transcendent horizon or providential design. This book offers new perspectives on the idea of the 'death of tragedy', taking England and the Religious Society of Friends in particular as a case study. The different disciplinary perspectives of the contributing authors bring literature, history, theology and sociology into a creative and revealing conversation.

Ashgate 2003 157 PP. Cloth

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Traveling Through Bensalem 1692-1984 (77)

BY MURIEL LICHTENWALNER, SARA SODESKY, JOHN MAHER , RUTH I. REES
SECONDHAND BOOK, Fair condition. History of this Bucks county township with many Quaker connections.

Historical Society of Bensalem 1984 394 PP. Paper

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Winstanley; Warts And All

BY KEVIN BROWNLOW
The story of the making of the film "Winstanley," written by its director Kevin Brownlow, telling what went wrong (everything), and how the film was kept from audiences all over the world, but was declared a work of genius in France. Winstanley was a contemporary of Fox - maybe a Quaker- and one of the world's first occupiers as leader of the Diggers.

UKA Press 2009 303 PP. Paper

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The World Turned Upside Down

Radical Ideas During The English Revolution

BY CHRISTOPHER HILL
A study of the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and the Quakers, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them.

Penguin 1991 430 PP. Paper

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