| Description |
viii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. False dawn -- Newcomers -- Settlers and squatters -- Expansion -- Fraud -- A hunger for land -- pt. 2. Theatre of bloodshed and rapine -- Braddock's defeat -- Pennsylvania goes to war -- Negotiations -- Westward journeys -- Conquest -- pt. 3. Zealots -- Indian uprising -- Rangers -- Conestoga Indiantown -- Lancaster workhouse -- Panic in Philadelphia -- pt. 4. A war of words -- The Declaration and Remonstrance -- A proper spirit of jealousy and revenge -- Christian white savages -- Under the tyrant's foot -- pt. 5. Unraveling -- Killers -- Mercenaries -- Revolutionaries -- Appendix : Identifying the Conestoga Indians. |
| Summary |
"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... Based on extensive research in eighteenth-century primary sources, this ... history offers an eye-opening look at how colonists--at first, the backwoods Paxton Boys but later the U.S. government--expropriated Native American lands, ending forever the dream of colonists and Indians living together in peace."--Dust jacket. |
| Subject |
Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Philosophy.
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Penn, William, 1644-1718. |
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Philosophy. |
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Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763.
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Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.
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Paxton Boys.
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Paxton Boys. |
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Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.
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Pennsylvania. |
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Race relations. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
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Indians of North America. |
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Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Government relations -- History -- 18th century.
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Culture conflict -- Pennsylvania -- History.
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Culture conflict. |
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Penn, William. |
| Added Title |
Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment |
| ISBN |
9780195331509 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0195331508 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780199753949 paperback |
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0199753946 paperback |
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