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Informationen zum Autor Kevin Kenny is Professor of History at Boston College where he specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Atlantic migration. He is author of Making Sense of the Molly Maguires and The American Irish: A History, and editor of Ireland and the British Empire. Klappentext By what right do some people take over the land of others? Covering the period from the foundation of colonial Pennsylvania in the 1680s to its dissolution during the American Revolution. This book explains how William Penn's "holy experiment" in religious tolerance and social harmony gradually disintegrated under the pressure of ever-intensifying forms of colonialist expropriation. For Pennsylvania's Indians, the consequences were disastrous. Zusammenfassung Based on extensive research in eighteenth-century primary sources, this engaging history offers an eye-opening look at how colonists--at first, the backwoods Paxton Boys of Pennsylvania, but later the U.S. government--expropriated Native American lands, ending forever the dream of colonists and Indians living together in peace. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction False Dawn 1: Newcomers 2: Settlers and Squatters 3: Expansion 4: Fraud 5: A Hunger for Land "Theatre of Bloodshed and Rapine" 6: Braddock's Defeat 7: Pennsylvania Goes to War 8: Negotiations 9: Westward Journeys 10: Conquest Zealots 11: Indian Uprising 12: Rangers 13: Conestoga Indiantown 14: Lancaster Workhouse 15: Panic in Philadelphia A War of Words 16: Germantown 17: "A proper Spirit of Jealousy, and Revenge" 18: "Christian White Savages" 19: "Under the Tyran's Foot Unraveling 20: Killers 21: Mercenaries 22: Revolutionaries Players Chronology
