Peaceable kingdom lost : the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment / Kevin Kenny.

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...

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Main Author: Kenny, Kevin, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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