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Liberty, conscience, and toleration : the political thought of William Penn
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ISBN: 0190271213 0190271205 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration focuses on the major political episodes that attracted William Penn's sustained attention as a political thinker and actor: the controversy over the Second Conventicle Act, the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis, the founding and settlement of Pennsylvania, and the contentious reign of James II. Through a careful examination of writings published in the midst of the religious and political conflicts of Restoration and Revolutionary England, Murphy contextualizes the development of Penn's thought in England and America, illuminating the mutual interconnections


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Peaceable kingdom lost : the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment
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ISBN: 128232831X 9786612328312 0199734453 9780199734450 0199758522 0197715303 9780195331509 0195331508 9780199753949 0199753946 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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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.

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