Geoffrey Plank

John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom

A Quaker in the British Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Geoffrey Plank is Professor in the School of American Studies, University of East Anglia. He is author of An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia and Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire, both also available from University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244052
• ISBN-10: 0812244052
• Artikelnr.: 35055374

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Plank

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Past Ages: History
2. Deserts and Lonely Places: Social Diversion and Solitary Meditation
3. More Than Was Required: Quaker Meetings
4. The Road to Large Business: Family and Work
5. A Dark Gloominess Hanging over the Land: Slavery
6. Men in Military Posture: The Seven Years' War
7. Not in Words Only: Conspicuous Instructive Behavior
8. The Deep: Crossing the Sea
9. A Messenger Sent from the Almighty: England and Death
Epilogue
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments