"Rememb'ring our time and work is the Lords"; the experiences of Quakers on the eighteenth-century Pennsylvania frontier.1575910934 "Rememb'ring our time and work is the Lords"; the experiences of Quakers Quakers: see Friends, Religious Society of. Quakers known for service to peace. [Am. Hist.: EB, 7: 743–745] See : Antimilitarism Quakers nonmilitant, gentle, religious sect. [Am. Hist. on the eighteenth-century Pennsylvania frontier. Guenther, Karen. Susquehanna Univ. Press 2005 251 pages $52.50 Hardcover The Pennsylvania history and culture series F157 The religious group most prominent in establishing the province of Pennsylvania The Province of Pennsylvania, better known to Americans as Pennsylvania Colony, was a North American colony granted to William Penn on March 4th, 1681 by King Charles II of England. , was the Society of Friend, or Quakers, Guenther (history, Manfield U. of Pennsylvania) reminds readers, but with increasing pluralism pluralism, in philosophy, theory that considers the universe explicable in terms of many principles or composed of many ultimate substances. It describes no particular system and may be embodied in such opposed philosophical concepts as materialism and idealism. , its impact and importance declined. Focusing on the activities of the Exeter Monthly Meeting of Friends, based in Berks County, during the 18th century, she examines how changes in the world around them affected backcountry back·coun·try n. A sparsely inhabited rural region. Quakers. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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