Worlds of William Penn

ANDREW R. MURPHY is a professor of political science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is the author of numerous titles, including William Penn: A Life.  JOHN SMOLENSKI is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania.

• ContentsIntroduction: William Penn and his Worlds – Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski      Part I Materials, History, Memory1.The Elusive Body of William Penn - Elizabeth Milroy2.Where William Penn Slept (And Why it Matters) - Catharine Dann Roeber3.Beyond the Bounds: Exploitation and Empire in the First Map of Pennsylvania - Emily MannPart II Irish Worlds4.William Penn, William Petty, and Surveying: the Irish Connection - Marcus Gallo5.The Irish Worlds of William Penn: Culture, Conflict and Connections - Audrey Horning6.The Roads to and From Cork: The Irish Origins of William Penn’s Theory of Religious Toleration - Andrew R. MurphyPart III Restoration Worlds7.New Worlds and Holy Experiments in the Restoration Literature of Milton, Bunyan, and Penn - Elizabeth Sauer8.William Penn and James II - Scott Sowerby9.William Penn, German Pietist(?) - Patrick M. ErbenPart IV American Worlds10.“Rancontyn Marenit”: Lenape Peacemaking Before William Penn - Michael Goode11.William Penn, John Winthrop, and Colonial Political Science - Alexander Mazzaferro12.Religion and Revolution in New England: 1689 - Sarah A. Morgan SmithQuaker Worlds13.William Penn as Preface Writer, Historian, and Controversialist - Catie Gill14.Quakers and Political Discernment in the Early Restoration - Adrian Chastain Weimer15.From Puritan to Quaker: Mary Dyer and Puritan-Quaker Conversion in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic - Rachel Love MonroyPart V Imperial Worlds16.Pennsylvania’s Religious Freedom in Comparative Colonial Context - Evan Haefeli17.William Penn and Security Communities: A Career - Patrick Cecil18.William Penn’s Imperial Landscape: Improvement, Political Economy, and Colonial Agriculture in the Pennsylvania Project - Shuichi Wanibuchi

"This marvelous new examination of William Penn’s many worlds gives us this remarkable man anew." - Michael Zuckerman (University of Pennsylvania) "Readers may find themselves drawn into Penn’s tempestuous trans-Atlantic world. Such readers may want to go on to read The Worlds of William Penn, a collection of 18 essays on Penn and his 'worlds' (American, English, Irish and Quaker). In one illuminating essay, historian Scott Sowerby notes how unlikely the alliance between the Quaker Penn and the Catholic James II was." (Wall Street Journal) "This collection offers much to consider in the history and historiography of William Penn...[A] must-have for anyone interested in William Penn and, even more so, in the state of Penn historiography. The inclusion of material history and the Native American perspective offer particular strength to the overall value of the book, which offers new interpretations from a variety of fresh angles. Scholars of Penn, Quakerism, Pennsylvania, religion, and the British Empire will be engaging with this collection and these scholars for years to come." (H-Net) "Like work completed over the last four decades and currently underway, this volume contributes important perspectives and research on the complicated history of William Penn and his worlds." (Pennsylvania History)