World of trouble : a Philadelphia Quaker family's journey through the American Revolution /
An intimate account of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of a Quaker pacifist couple living in Philadelphia. Historian Richard Godbeer presents a richly layered and intimate account of the American Revolution as experienced by a Philadelphia Quaker couple, Elizabeth Drinker and the me...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2019]
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| Col·lecció: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvrf88p9 |
| Sumari: | An intimate account of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of a Quaker pacifist couple living in Philadelphia. Historian Richard Godbeer presents a richly layered and intimate account of the American Revolution as experienced by a Philadelphia Quaker couple, Elizabeth Drinker and the merchant Henry Drinker, who barely survived the unique perils that Quakers faced during that conflict. Spanning a half-century before, during, and after the war, this gripping narrative illuminates the Revolution's darker side as pacifist Quakers were vilified, threatened, and in some cases killed as alleged enemies of the revolutionary cause. Amid chaos and danger, the Drinkers tried as best they could to keep their family and faith intact. Through one couple's story, Godbeer opens a window onto a uniquely turbulent period of American history, uncovers the domestic, social, and religious lives of Quakers in the late eighteenth century, and situates their experience in the context of transatlantic culture and trade. A master storyteller takes his readers on a moving journey they will never forget. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 460 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300248906 0300248903 0300219989 9780300219982 |