Lenape Country

Author : Jean R. Soderlund
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812246476

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Lenape Country by Jean R. Soderlund Pdf

In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through diplomacy and trade. The Lenapes preserved their political sovereignty for the next fifty years as Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and English colonists settled the Delaware Valley. The European outposts did not approach the size and strength of those in Virginia, New England, and New Netherland. Even after thousands of Quakers arrived in West New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the late 1670s and '80s, the region successfully avoided war for another seventy-five years. Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of the multiethnic society of the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After Swanendael, the Natives, Swedes, and Finns avoided war by focusing on trade and forging strategic alliances in such events as the Dutch conquest, the Mercurius affair, the Long Swede conspiracy, and English attempts to seize land. Drawing on a wide range of sources, author Jean R. Soderlund demonstrates that the hallmarks of Delaware Valley society—commitment to personal freedom, religious liberty, peaceful resolution of conflict, and opposition to hierarchical government—began in the Delaware Valley not with Quaker ideals or the leadership of William Penn but with the Lenape Indians, whose culture played a key role in shaping Delaware Valley society. The first comprehensive account of the Lenape Indians and their encounters with European settlers before Pennsylvania's founding, Lenape Country places Native culture at the center of this part of North America.

Author : Andrew R. Murphy,John Smolenski
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978801783

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The Worlds of William Penn by Andrew R. Murphy,John Smolenski Pdf

William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career. Contributors analyze the worlds that shaped Penn and the worlds that he shaped: Irish, English, American, Quaker, and imperial. The eighteen chapters in The Worlds of William Penn shed critical new light on Penn’s life and legacy, examining his early and often-overlooked time in Ireland; the literary, political, and theological legacies of his public career during the Restoration and after the 1688 Revolution; his role as proprietor of Pennsylvania; his religious leadership in the Quaker movement, and as a loyal lieutenant to George Fox, and his important role in the broader British imperial project. Coinciding with the 300th anniversary of Penn’s death the time is right for this examination of Penn’s importance both in his own time and to the ongoing campaign for political and religious liberty

Author : Alan C. Braddock,Laura Turner Igoe
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271078946

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A Greene Country Towne by Alan C. Braddock,Laura Turner Igoe Pdf

An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the meaning of community beyond people to encompass nonhuman beings, things, and forces. By examining a diverse range of cultural acts and material objects created in Philadelphia—from Native American artifacts, early stoves, and literary works to public parks, photographs, and paintings—through the lens of new materialism, the essays in A Greene Country Towne ask us to consider an urban environmental history in which humans are not the only protagonists. This collection reimagines the city as a system of constantly evolving constituents and agencies that have interacted over time, a system powerfully captured by Philadelphia artists, writers, architects, and planners since the seventeenth century. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Maria Farland, Nate Gabriel, Andrea L. M. Hansen, Scott Hicks, Michael Dean Mackintosh, Amy E. Menzer, Stephen Nepa, John Ott, Sue Ann Prince, and Mary I. Unger.

Author : Andrew R. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190234263

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William Penn by Andrew R. Murphy Pdf

On March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for a new American colony. Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder's words, a bold "Holy Experiment" in religious freedom and toleration, a haven for those fleeing persecution in an increasingly intolerant England and across Europe. An activist, political theorist, and the proprietor of his own colony, Penn would become a household name in the New World, despite spending just four years on American soil. Though Penn is an iconic figure in both American and British history, controversy swirled around him during his lifetime. In his early twenties, Penn became a Quaker -- an act of religious as well as political rebellion that put an end to his father's dream that young William would one day join the English elite. Yet Penn went on to a prominent public career as a Quaker spokesman, political agitator, and royal courtier. At the height of his influence, Penn was one of the best-known Dissenters in England and walked the halls of power as a close ally of King James II. At his lowest point, he found himself jailed on suspicion of treason, and later served time in debtor's prison. Despite his importance, William Penn has remained an elusive character -- many people know his name, but few know much more than that. Andrew R. Murphy offers the first major biography of Penn in more than forty years, and the first to make full use of Penn's private papers. The result is a complex portrait of a man whose legacy we are still grappling with today. At a time when religious freedom is hotly debated in the United States and around the world, William Penn's Holy Experiment serves as both a beacon and a challenge.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004388178

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Quakers and Native Americans by Anonim Pdf

Quakers and Native Americans is a collection of essays examining the history of interactions between Quakers and American Indians from the 1650s, emphasising American Indian influence on Quaker history as well as Quaker influence on U.S. policy toward American Indians.

Author : James Eldridge Quinlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Delaware Indians
ISBN : PSU:000013556631

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History of Sullivan County by James Eldridge Quinlan Pdf

Author : Jacob Isidor Mombert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Lancaster County (Pa.)
ISBN : UVA:X000440384

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An Authentic History of Lancaster County by Jacob Isidor Mombert Pdf

Author : Jean R. Soderlund
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978813113

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Separate Paths by Jean R. Soderlund Pdf

Defending the Lenape homeland -- Seeking peace in Cohanzick County -- Protecting liberty and property : the West New Jersey concessions -- Quaker colonization without violence or remorse -- Women, ethnicity, and freedom in southern Lenapehoking -- Forced separation : enslaved blacks in the Quaker colony -- A different path : defining Swedish and Finnish ethnicity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Indiana County (Pa.)
ISBN : CHI:19619688

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1745-1880 History of Indiana County, Penn'a by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Delaware County (Pa.)
ISBN : UGA:32108028246539

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History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania by George Smith Pdf

Author : Christian J. Koot
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479837298

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A Biography of a Map in Motion by Christian J. Koot Pdf

Reveals the little known history of one of history’s most famous maps – and its maker Tucked away in a near-forgotten collection, Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited is one of the most extraordinary maps of colonial British America. Created by a colonial merchant, planter, and diplomat named Augustine Herrman, the map pictures the Mid-Atlantic in breathtaking detail, capturing its waterways, coastlines, and communities. Herrman spent three decades travelling between Dutch New Amsterdam and the English Chesapeake before eventually settling in Maryland and making this map. Although the map has been reproduced widely, the history of how it became one of the most famous images of the Chesapeake has never been told. A Biography of a Map in Motion uncovers the intertwined stories of the map and its maker, offering new insights into the creation of empire in North America. The book follows the map from the waterways of the Chesapeake to the workshops of London, where it was turned into a print and sold. Transported into coffee houses, private rooms, and government offices, Virginia and Maryland became an apparatus of empire that allowed English elites to imaginatively possess and accurately manage their Atlantic colonies. Investigating this map offers the rare opportunity to recapture the complementary and occasionally conflicting forces that created the British Empire. From the colonial and the metropolitan to the economic and the political to the local and the Atlantic, this is a fascinating exploration of the many meanings of a map, and how what some saw as establishing a sense of local place could translate to forging an empire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Wyandot County (Ohio)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924028848848

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The History of Wyandot County, Ohio by Anonim Pdf

Author : A. Lynn Smith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496235312

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Memory Wars by A. Lynn Smith Pdf

Memory Wars explores how commemorative sites and patriotic fanfare marking the mission of General John Sullivan into Iroquois territory during the Revolutionary War continue to shape historical understandings today. Sullivan’s expedition was ordered by General George Washington at a tenuous moment of the Revolutionary War. It was a massive enterprise involving thousands of men who marched across northeastern Pennsylvania into what is now New York state, to eliminate any present or future threat from the British-allied Iroquois Confederacy. Sullivan and his men carried out a scorched-earth campaign, obliterating more than forty Iroquois villages, including homes, fields, and crops. For Indigenous residents it was a catastrophic invasion. For many others the expedition yielded untold bounty: American victory over the British along with land and fortunes beyond measure for settlers who soon moved onto the razed village sites. The Sullivan Expedition has long been fixed on the landscape of Pennsylvania and New York by a cast of characters, including amateur historians, newly formed historical societies, and local chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Asking how it is that people continue to “celebrate Sullivan” in the present day, Memory Wars underscores the symbolic value of the past as well as the dilemmas posed to contemporary Americans by the national commemorative landscape.

Author : Carl Waldman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9781438110103

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Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes by Carl Waldman Pdf

A comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia which provides information on over 150 native tribes of North America, including prehistoric peoples.

Author : John W. Jordan
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : History
ISBN : 9785876569028

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A history of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and its people by John W. Jordan Pdf