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Informationen zum Autor Murphy, Andrew R Klappentext William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world! known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes! bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career. Zusammenfassung William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction: William Penn and his Worlds – Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski Part I Materials, History, Memory 1.The Elusive Body of William Penn - Elizabeth Milroy 2.Where William Penn Slept (And Why it Matters) - Catharine Dann Roeber 3.Beyond the Bounds: Exploitation and Empire in the First Map of Pennsylvania - Emily Mann Part II Irish Worlds 4.William Penn, William Petty, and Surveying: the Irish Connection - Marcus Gallo 5.The Irish Worlds of William Penn: Culture, Conflict and Connections - Audrey Horning 6.The Roads to and From Cork: The Irish Origins of William Penn’s Theory of Religious Toleration - Andrew R. Murphy Part III Restoration Worlds 7.New Worlds and Holy Experiments in the Restoration Literature of Milton, Bunyan, and Penn - Elizabeth Sauer 8.William Penn and James II - Scott Sowerby 9.William Penn, German Pietist(?) - Patrick M. Erben Part IV American Worlds 10.“Rancontyn Marenit”: Lenape Peacemaking Before William Penn - Michael Goode 11.William Penn, John Winthrop, and Colonial Political Science - Alexander Mazzaferro 12.Religion and Revolution in New England: 1689 - Sarah A. Morgan Smith Quaker Worlds 13.William Penn as Preface Writer, Historian, and Controversialist - Catie Gill 14.Quakers and Political Discernment in the Early Restoration - Adrian Chastain Weimer 15.From Puritan to Quaker: Mary Dyer and Puritan-Quaker Conversion in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic - Rachel Love Monroy Part V Imperial Worlds 16.Pennsylvania’s Religious Freedom in Comparative Colonial Context - Evan Haefeli 17.William Penn and Security Communities: A Career - Patrick Cecil 18.William Penn’s Imperial Landscape: Improvement, Political Economy, and Colonial Agriculture in the Pennsylvania Project - Shuichi Wanibuchi...
