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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2019]
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| Serie: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvrf88p9 |
Sommario:
- Introduction
- 1. "A Cornerstone to My Love-Fabric": In Which Henry Drinker Woos Elizabeth Sandwith
- 2. "Tenderness, Care, and Anxiety" at Home and Abroad: In Which the Drinkers Embark on Married Life
- 3. "Obliged to Wade through This Sea of Politics": In Which the Firm of James and Drinker Flounders in Storms of Political Protest
- 4. "Cruelty and Oppression": In Which Henry Drinker Is Arrested and Sent into Exile
- 5. "Inward and Outward Trials": Surviving the Revolution
- 6. "The Cause of Humanity, as Well as Our Interest": In Which Henry Drinker Reinvents Himself as a Moral Architect
- 7. "Times Are Much Changed, and Maids Are Become Mistresses": In Which Elizabeth Drinker Tries to Fend Off a Domestic Revolution
- 8. "A Scene of Affliction and Grief": In Which Elizabeth and Henry Drinker Face New Challenges to Their Family's Survival
- 9. "To the Place of Fixedness": In Which the Drinkers Reach the End of Their Journey
- Epilogue
- Family Trees
- Chronology
- Notes
- Index.