Friends and strangers
Subtitle: the making of a Creole culture in colonial Pennsylvania
By: John Smolenski.
Series: Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812242393
Subjects: Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History; Pennsylvania -- Ethnic relations; Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of Quaker Pennsylvania; title: Quakerism's English roots; title: William Penn settles his colony: the problem of legitimacy in early Pennsylvania; title: Words and things: contesting civic identity in early Pennsylvania; title: "Bastard Quakers" in America: the Keithian schism and the creation of Creole Quakerism in early Pennsylvania; title: Narratives of early Pennsylvania, Part I: life on the colonial borderlands; title: Narratives of early Pennsylvania, Part II: the founding of Pennsylvania; title: The parables of Pennsylvania politics: the power of Quaker mythology; title: Conclusion: Caleb Pusey Miller, philosopher, man of letters.