Kevin Kenny

Peaceable Kingdom Lost

The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780199753949
• ISBN-10: 0199753946
• Artikelnr.: 30519953

Autorenporträt

Kevin Kenny is Professor of History at Boston College where he specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Atlantic migration. He is author of Making Sense of the Molly Maguires and The American Irish: A History, and editor of Ireland and the British Empire.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
False Dawn
1: Newcomers
2: Settlers and Squatters
3: Expansion
4: Fraud
5: A Hunger for Land
"Theatre of Bloodshed and Rapine"
6: Braddock's Defeat
7: Pennsylvania Goes to War
8: Negotiations
9: Westward Journeys
10: Conquest
Zealots
11: Indian Uprising
12: Rangers
13: Conestoga Indiantown
14: Lancaster Workhouse
15: Panic in Philadelphia
A War of Words
16: Germantown
17: "A proper Spirit of Jealousy, and Revenge"
18: "Christian White Savages"
19: "Under the Tyrant's Foot"
Unraveling
20: Killers
21: Mercenaries
22: Revolutionaries
Players
Chronology