Book ID: CBB022724734

Quakers in the British Atlantic world, c.1660-1800 (2021)

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Esther Sahle (Author)


The Boydell Press: Cambridge University Library


Publication Date: 2021
Edition Details: Book series: People, markets, goods, no. 18
Physical Details: 206
Language: English

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 Drawing on many unpublished sources, the study is able to portray a mid-eighteenth-century crisis for the Quaker communities when sanctions for offences against the prevailing disciplines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. (Amazon)

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Authors & Contributors
Barry, Jonathan
Beeley, Philip
Black, John
Boulton, Jeremy
Bruckerl, Frank
D'Antonio, Patricia O'Brien
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Business History Review
Early American Studies
History of Psychiatry
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
University of Pennsylvania Press
Columbia University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Lehigh University Press
Oxford University Press
Pantheon Books
Concepts
Merchants
Business history
Quakers and Quakerism
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Mental disorders and diseases
Science and society
People
Franklin, Benjamin
Ray, John
Willughby, Francis
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
18th century
16th century
20th century
21st century
Places
London (England)
England
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, U.S.)
United States
Great Britain
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Chance Brothers and Company
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
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