EbookBell.com

Most ebook files are in PDF format, so you can easily read them using various software such as Foxit Reader or directly on the Google Chrome browser.
Some ebook files are released by publishers in other formats such as .awz, .mobi, .epub, .fb2, etc. You may need to install specific software to read these formats on mobile/PC, such as Calibre.

Please read the tutorial at this link: https://ebookbell.com/faq

We offer FREE conversion to the popular formats you request; however, this may take some time. Therefore, right after payment, please email us, and we will try to provide the service as quickly as possible.

For some exceptional file formats or broken links (if any), please refrain from opening any disputes. Instead, email us first, and we will try to assist within a maximum of 6 hours.

EbookBell Team

Quakers In The British Atlantic World C16601800 Esther Sahle

SKU: BELL-38643652

$ 31.00 ~~$ 45.00~~ (-31%)

4.8

34 reviews

Quakers In The British Atlantic World C16601800 Esther Sahle instant download after payment.

Publisher: Boydell Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 4.93 MB

Pages: 218

Author: Esther Sahle

ISBN: 9781783275861, 1783275863

Language: English

Year: 2021

Product desciption

Quakers In The British Atlantic World C16601800 Esther Sahle by Esther Sahle 9781783275861, 1783275863 instant download after payment.

The book studies the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, London and Philadelphia. It looks at the origins of the Society of Friends in mid seventeenth century England and follows its development into a well organised sect with a sophisticated organisational structure spreading across the Atlantic world. The book zooms in on the Quaker communities in these two important port cities, as well as their relationships with non-Quaker inhabitants. It scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the business ethics they followed.
Drawing on many unpublished sources, the study is able to portray a mid-eighteenth-century crisis for the Quaker communities when sanctions for offences against the prevailing disciplines in business (fraud, debt, bankruptcy) and marriage increased dramatically. And yet these Quaker communities got likewise caught up in wider political developments across the British Empire. In the course of a series of conflicts affecting colonial Pennsylvania in the mid eighteenth century, the Society of Friends suffered grave reputational damage. The public in England and Pennsylvania began to perceive Quakers as a sect that put its own agenda and interest over the welfare of the colonial population and the Empire. In turn, these developments led to a "Quaker reformation" and Quaker identity became guided by new principles: honesty in business and religious marital endogamy. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of economic and Atlantic history, as well as Eighteenth-Century studies and religious history.
Table of Contents
The Institutional Foundations of Pre-Modern Trade
The Society of Friends
The Quaker Communities of London and Philadelphia
Quaker Business Ethics
Quaker Discipline in Practice
The Quaker Reformation
London Friends and Honesty in Business
Trade and Debt in Philadelphia
Marital Endogamy
War and Political Crisis
Reformation and Reputation
Appendix I: Queries of the London Yearly Meeting
Appendix II: Philadelphia Meetings' Self-Condemnations
Bibliography