World of trouble [electronic resource] : a Philadelphia Quaker family's journey through the American Revolution / Richard Godbeer.
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...
| Uniform Title: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey Through the American Revolution |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- "A cornerstone to my love-fabric": in which Henry Drinker woos Elizabeth Sandwith
- "Tenderness, care, and anxiety" at home and abroad: in which the Drinkers embark on married life
- "Obliged to wade through this sea of politics": in which the firm of James and Drinker flounders in storms of political protest
- "Cruelty and oppression": in which Henry Drinker is arrested and sent into exile
- "Inward and outward trials": surviving the Revolution
- "The cause of humanity, as well as our interest": in which Henry Drinker reinvents himself as a moral architect
- "Times are much changed, and maids are become mistresses": in which Elizabeth Drinker tries to fend off a domestic revolution
- "A sense of affliction and grief": in which Elizabeth and Henry Drinker face new challenges to their family's survival
- "To the place of fixedness": in which the Drinkers reach the end of their journey
- Epilogue
- Family trees
- Chronology