Peaceable Kingdom Lost (QuakerBooks)

Peaceable Kingdom Lost

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

BY KEVIN KENNY

Brief Description:
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)

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