William Penn: A Life
Autor Andrew R. Murphyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190234249
ISBN-10: 0190234245
Pagini: 488
Ilustrații: 24
Dimensiuni: 241 x 165 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190234245
Pagini: 488
Ilustrații: 24
Dimensiuni: 241 x 165 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Andrew Murphy's William Penn: A Life is a long overdue, revisionary interpretation of this icon in America's pantheon. Readers of all stripes will welcome this addition to their bookshelf of Americana.
Excellent and highly readable...Andrew R. Murphy may well be the world's greatest authority on William Penn.... This authoritative biography thus represents the culmination of a long and deep engagement with the life and ideas of William Penn and the broader religious and political context in which he lived. It is a tremendous achievement—a definitive biography that will last for many years to come.
Murphy gives us a meticulously researched account of the nuances of Penn's dealings with the varied issues and groups he confronted during his extraordinary life, providing an invaluable resource for anyone with a serious interest in the history of Quakerism, the development of governmental theory, or the vexed politics of Penn's 'holy experiment'.
an outstanding achievement ... we are offered as much biographical detail as anyone could desire ... [Penn] has found a fine biographer in Andrew Murphy.
Andrew Murphy's scholarly and pleasurable biography is extensively researched in the two continents and is at home in both ... William Penn is a model of fair-mindedness.
An important contribution to our understanding of the life and legacy of William Penn.
enlightening
There is much to applaud in Murphy's biography. His careful reading of Penn's papers and attention to detail affords readers unique insights into this complicated man and his legacy.
"Andrew Murphy begins by portraying William Penn neither as a statue on a pedestal nor a cartoon on a cereal box but as an old man in a debtors' prison. He then unfolds the tale of an admirably complicated figure-a terrible businessman yet a brilliant colonial promoter, a confidant of kings yet a member of a despised sect, a man of deep spiritual conviction yet an fierce advocate of religious liberty. William Penn: A Life is a remarkable achievement." -- Daniel K. Richter, author of Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts
"Of all the colonial founders, William Penn is the most important and the least studied -- a complex, profound man consigned to caricature in the public mind. In the first full biography in almost half a century, Murphy has gone a long way to remedy this, showing Penn as a towering figure in England and its colonies. Eclipsing Penn's earlier biographers, Murphy mines a generation of research on Penn and the Quakers to give us a broad-gauged, highly readable biography that balances Penn's personal tribulations and financial difficulties with his brilliance as a defender of the Society of Friends, a spokesman for political and religious freedom, and a promoter of pacifism, inter-group comity, and representative government." -- Gary B. Nash, author of The Unknown American Revolution
"A lively, engaging study of William Penn, meeting the highest standards of scholarship. Andrew Murphy expertly captures all sides of Penn's complex life and personality, including his idealism, his religious and political activism, his spendthrift and debt-ridden ways, and his multifarious wielding of power which brought him acclaim and opprobrium on both sides of the Atlantic. A magnificent accomplishment." -- Stephen W. Angell, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies
"Andrew Murphy's intricate and surprisingly personality-driven biography of Pennsylvania's founding weirdo William Penn is similar to many books on this year's list in that it's easily the new definitive work on its subject. Murphy ranges over the whole width of Penn's fascinating life in a confident and knowledgeable way no other biographer has ever approached." -- Open Letter Review
"This is a highly informative, well thought out and heavily researched biography that also closely explains the economics, politics and religion of this period." -- Pennsylvania Literary Journal
"For anyone desiring comprehensive knowledge of Penn's life, this is the book to read." -- Library Journal
Excellent and highly readable...Andrew R. Murphy may well be the world's greatest authority on William Penn.... This authoritative biography thus represents the culmination of a long and deep engagement with the life and ideas of William Penn and the broader religious and political context in which he lived. It is a tremendous achievement—a definitive biography that will last for many years to come.
Murphy gives us a meticulously researched account of the nuances of Penn's dealings with the varied issues and groups he confronted during his extraordinary life, providing an invaluable resource for anyone with a serious interest in the history of Quakerism, the development of governmental theory, or the vexed politics of Penn's 'holy experiment'.
an outstanding achievement ... we are offered as much biographical detail as anyone could desire ... [Penn] has found a fine biographer in Andrew Murphy.
Andrew Murphy's scholarly and pleasurable biography is extensively researched in the two continents and is at home in both ... William Penn is a model of fair-mindedness.
An important contribution to our understanding of the life and legacy of William Penn.
enlightening
There is much to applaud in Murphy's biography. His careful reading of Penn's papers and attention to detail affords readers unique insights into this complicated man and his legacy.
"Andrew Murphy begins by portraying William Penn neither as a statue on a pedestal nor a cartoon on a cereal box but as an old man in a debtors' prison. He then unfolds the tale of an admirably complicated figure-a terrible businessman yet a brilliant colonial promoter, a confidant of kings yet a member of a despised sect, a man of deep spiritual conviction yet an fierce advocate of religious liberty. William Penn: A Life is a remarkable achievement." -- Daniel K. Richter, author of Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts
"Of all the colonial founders, William Penn is the most important and the least studied -- a complex, profound man consigned to caricature in the public mind. In the first full biography in almost half a century, Murphy has gone a long way to remedy this, showing Penn as a towering figure in England and its colonies. Eclipsing Penn's earlier biographers, Murphy mines a generation of research on Penn and the Quakers to give us a broad-gauged, highly readable biography that balances Penn's personal tribulations and financial difficulties with his brilliance as a defender of the Society of Friends, a spokesman for political and religious freedom, and a promoter of pacifism, inter-group comity, and representative government." -- Gary B. Nash, author of The Unknown American Revolution
"A lively, engaging study of William Penn, meeting the highest standards of scholarship. Andrew Murphy expertly captures all sides of Penn's complex life and personality, including his idealism, his religious and political activism, his spendthrift and debt-ridden ways, and his multifarious wielding of power which brought him acclaim and opprobrium on both sides of the Atlantic. A magnificent accomplishment." -- Stephen W. Angell, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies
"Andrew Murphy's intricate and surprisingly personality-driven biography of Pennsylvania's founding weirdo William Penn is similar to many books on this year's list in that it's easily the new definitive work on its subject. Murphy ranges over the whole width of Penn's fascinating life in a confident and knowledgeable way no other biographer has ever approached." -- Open Letter Review
"This is a highly informative, well thought out and heavily researched biography that also closely explains the economics, politics and religion of this period." -- Pennsylvania Literary Journal
"For anyone desiring comprehensive knowledge of Penn's life, this is the book to read." -- Library Journal
Notă biografică
Andrew R. Murphy is Professor of Political Science and the Richard L. Morrill Distinguished University Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Murphy is the author of Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration: The Political Thought of William Penn (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Cuprins
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on the Texts; Part I. Political Liberties: 1. The Peoples Ancient and Just Liberties Asserted (1670); 2. Englands Present Interest Discover'd (1675); 3. England's great interest in the choice of this Parliament (1679); 4. The Great and Popular Objection Against the Repeal of the Penal Laws and Tests (1688); Part II. Toleration and Liberty of Conscience: 5. The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience (1670); 6. The Proposed Comprehension (1673); 7. One Project for the good of England (1679); 8. A Perswasive to Moderation (1686); Part III. Pennsylvania: 9. Some account of the Province of Pennsilvania in America (1681); 10. The Fundamental Constitutions of Pennsilvania (unpublished, summer 1681); 11. The Frame of Government and Laws agreed upon in England (1682); 12. The Charter of Privileges (1701); Part IV. Broader Perspectives: 13. An Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe (1693); 14. A Brief and Plain scheame (unpublished, 1697); 15. Proposal for the Advancement of Trade in America (unpublished, 1697); Bibliography; Index.