Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment by Kenny, Kevin - 2009-07-21

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2009. BC ed.. hardcover. 8vo, 294 pp. .

Oxford University Press, USA. Used - Very Good. 2009. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.

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Oxford University Press, 2009. Fine. Kenny, Kevin. Peaceable Kingdom Lost. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009. viii, 294pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine.

Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0195331508 . Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page , book and jacket are in excellent condition, there are no remarkable flaws, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, a fine gift copy of this "compelling study of the Paxton Boys' massacre of Conestoga Indians and of the volatile world that produced it," illustrated, includes a bibliography .

New York: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 0195331508 . Hardbound w/ VG DJ ; clean and unmarked and binding tight and square ; As new ; ; 8vo; 294 pages .

New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. First printing. Gilt lettering on black covers in a brown pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 294pp.

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New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9x1x6. First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. 2009 Hard Cover. viii, 294 pp. William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans. Kenny recounts how rapacious frontier settlers, most of them of Ulster extraction, began to encroach on Indian land as squatters, while William Penn's sons cast off their father's Quaker heritage and turned instead to fraud, intimidation, and eventually violence during the French and Indian War. In 1763, a group of frontier settlers known as the Paxton Boys exterminated the last twenty Conestogas, descendants of Indians who had lived peacefully since the 1690s on land donated by William Penn… Read More

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