Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania

by John Smolenski

Book Overview

In its early years, William Penn's "Peaceable Kingdom" was anything but. Pennsylvania's governing institutions were faced with daunting challenges: Native Americans proved far less docile than Penn had hoped, the colony's non-English settlers were loath to accept Quaker authority, and Friends themselves were divided by grievous factional struggles. Yet out of this chaos emerged a colony hailed by contemporary and modern observers alike as the most...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812242394
• ISBN13: 9780812242393
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"