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

Kenny, Kevin 1960- (Author).

Summary: "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... Based on extensive research in eighteenth-century primary sources, this ... history offers an eye-opening look at how colonists -- at first, the backwoods Paxton Boys but later the U.S. government -- expropriated Native American lands, ending forever the dream of colonists and Indians living together in peace"--Dust jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0195331508
ISBN: 9780195331509 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0195331508 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780199753949 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0199753946 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
viii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. False dawn. Newcomers -- Settlers and squatters -- Expansion -- Fraud -- A hunger for land -- pt. 2. Theatre of bloodshed and rapine. Braddock's defeat -- Pennsylvania goes to war -- Negotiations -- Westward journeys -- Conquest -- pt. 3. Zealots. Indian uprising -- Rangers -- Conestoga Indiantown -- Lancaster workhouse -- Panic in Philadelphia -- pt. 4. A war of words. The Declaration and Remonstrance -- A proper spirit of jealousy and revenge -- Christian white savages -- Under the tyrant's foot -- pt. 5. Unraveling. Killers -- Mercenaries -- Revolutionaries.