London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World: The Creation of an Early Modern Community (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800)
Jordan Landes
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Hardcover. This book explores the Society of Friend's Atlantic presence through its creation and use of networks, including intellectual and theological exchange, and through the movement of people. It focuses on the establishment of trans-Atlantic Quaker networks and the crucial role London played in the creation of a Quaker community in the North Atlantic. Series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1KBB; HBJD1; HBJK; HRAX; HRCC97. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
This book explores the Society of Friend's Atlantic presence through its creation and use of networks, including intellectual and theological exchange, and through the movement of people. It focuses on the establishment of trans-Atlantic Quaker networks and the crucial role London played in the creation of a Quaker community in the North Atlantic.
This book explores the Society of Friend's Atlantic presence through its creation and use of networks, including intellectual and theological exchange, and through the movement of people. It focuses on the establishment of trans-Atlantic Quaker networks and the crucial role London played in the creation of a Quaker community in the North Atlantic.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137366672
SKU
V9781137366672
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Ref
99-15
About Jordan Landes
Jordan is Research Librarian for History at Senate House Library, University of London, UK. She has previously been a librarian at the University of Maryland – College Park, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London. She completed her PhD in the Centre for Metropolitan History, University of London, UK.
Reviews for London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World: The Creation of an Early Modern Community (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800)
“Jordan Landes’s London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World: the creation of an early modern community provides essential background for any historian initiating research on seventeenth-century Quakerism. In thoroughly researched and detailed thematic chapters, Landes provides overviews of the Quakers’ institutional structures, communications networks, approach to politics and commerce, their book trade, migration patterns across the Atlantic and their perception of ... Read more