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Books on: quakers history

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1.

Rebel Saints

Book by Mary Agnes Best; Harcourt, Brace, 1925

Subjects:

Quakers--Biography, Quakers--History, Society of Friends--Biography, Society of Friends--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Fox and the early Quakers so long ago assumed...Buckle in his History of Civilization...to read Sewel History of the Quakers . -- CHARLES LAMB...preserved in his "History of the Quakers." Both narratives...
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The Quakers

Book by Hugh Barbour, J. William Frost; Greenwood Press, 1988

Subjects:

Quakers--United States--Biography, Society Of Friends, Society Of Friends--United States

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

"From two professors of religion, a comprehensive history of the Society of Friends in the U.S. . . . The authors are careful to explain what Quakers believed at every stage of their development and how they organized their lives around the religious and social movements they fostered or fought ...
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"From two professors of religion, a comprehensive history of the Society of Friends in the U.S. . . . The authors are careful to explain what Quakers believed at every stage of their development and how they organized their lives around the religious and social movements they fostered or fought against. The second part of this engaging book is a biographical dictionary of Quaker leaders." Reference Books Bulletin
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The Quakers and the English Revolution

Book by Barry Reay; Temple Smith, 1985

Subjects:

England--Church history--17th century, Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660, Quakers--England--History--17th Century, Society of Friends--England--History--17th century

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...understanding of the early history of the Quakers has been transformed. Thanks...is meaningless to write a history of Quakers without taking into account...Suffolk, for example. Many Quakers had a history of active resistance to tithes...
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Two Early Political Associations: The Quakers and the Dissenting Deputies in the Age of Sir Robert Walpole

Book by N. C. Hunt; Clarendon Press, 1961

Subjects:

Church and state--Great Britain, Dissenters, Religious--Great Britaian, Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714, Great Britain--Politics and government--1714-1760, Quakers--Great Britain

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Sufferings in October 1675 the Quakers were consciously creating a...Arnold Lloyd, Quaker Social History , p. 13. 2 Minutes...38 Wm. Sewell, History of the...People Called Quakers , London, 1722, pp. 650...
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Israel Pemberton: King of the Quakers

Book by Theodore Thayer; Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943

Subjects:

Pemberton, Israel--1715-1779, Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, Quakers--Pennsylvania--History, Society of Friends--Pennsylvania

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...XIII A Chapter in History Draws to a Close...Revolution Engulfs the Quakers 207...The wealthy Quakers of pre-Revolutionary...languages as well as history and philosophy...III, 48. The Quakers were regularly accused...writers on Quaker history hold that there...

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Journal Articles on: quakers history

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Imaginary Friends: Representing Quakers in Early American Fiction

Journal article by James Emmett Ryan; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 31, 2003

Subjects:

American literature, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Quakers, Quakers--Portrayals, Religious Society of Friends--Portrayals, Stowe, Harriet Beecher--Criticism and interpretation, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...prelude to determining that Quakers are either dangerous or else...Hawthornes views of national history, for example, he makes a point...who are projected back onto history as refreshing contrasts to...groups. Most came to share the Quakers concern for basic literacy...
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Quakers, Ecumenism and the WCC

Journal article by Dean Freiday; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 46, 1994

Subjects:

Ecumenical movement--Analysis, Quakers--Attitudes, World Council of Churches--Membership

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...America, Asia and Africa the Quakers are largely in groups reflecting...tradition and knowledge of Quaker history". Friends World Committee...in bringing the varieties of Quakers closer together and also display...of the slightly over 300,000 Quakers of all varieties, is also being...
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Print Culture and the Early Quakers

Journal article by Alexandra Halasz; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Print Culture and the Early Quakers (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Kate Peters. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University...Peters addresses the pre-denominational history of the Quakers and successfully argues for their political...
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The Quakers in America

Journal article by Steven Jay White; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Quakers in America (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...novice primer on Quakers, it also doubles...Quaker beliefs and history, it breaks new ground...makes sense of what Quakers believe in contemporary...American Quaker history as its title might...American Quaker history has been paradoxical; on the one hand, Quakers are pioneers in...
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Print Culture and the Early Quakers

Journal article by Thomas D. Hamm; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Print Culture and the Early Quakers (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...has produced a model monograph on how Quakers before 1660 used printing to forward their...narrow group of specialists in Quaker history and the much larger one of historians...study of a radical religious movement. Quakers were not only prolific publishers of books...

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Magazine Articles on: quakers history

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A Heavenly Visitation: Larry Gragg Recounts the Reasons for the Visit of the Quaker George Fox to Barbados in 1671, and the Significance of His Presence There

Magazine article by Larry Gragg; History Today, Vol. 52, February 2002

Subjects:

Barbados--History, Colonization--Barbados, Evangelistic work--Barbados, Fox, George--Conduct of life, Missionaries--Conduct of life, Quakers--Conduct of life

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1994); Rosemary Moore, The Light in Their Consciences: Early Quakers in Britain 1646-1666 (Pennsylvania State UP, 2000); John L...Cambridge UP, 1952). Larry Gragg is Professor of Early American History at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
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The Peaceable Kingdoms of Edward Hicks

Magazine article by Stephen May; World and I, Vol. 14, December 1999

Subjects:

Art, Art and religion--Analysis, Paradise--Portrayals, Quakers

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...for their efforts. He also directed this comment to Orthodox Quakers who increasingly were persuaded that some old Quaker tenets...truth suffers." These types, says Hicks, can be seen throughout history, most notably in the leaders of Judaism at the time of Jesus...
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Can We Be Friends

Magazine article by Larry Ingle; The Christian Century, Vol. 112, April 19, 1995

Subjects:

American Friends Service Committee--Membership, Quakers--Membership

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...have always averred that its problems mirror the problems of Quakers as a whole. Both sides overlook this valid point, at least...groups unique tradition and faith? Larry Ingle, professor of history at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, recently wrote...
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Sometimes You Just Gotta Dance: Physical Expressiveness in Worship

Magazine article by David L. Johns; Cross Currents, Vol. 52, Summer 2002

Subjects:

Converts, Dancing--Religious aspects, God--Worship and love, Inuit--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...spirit leading--is no longer Quakers only form, a long history of informality and suppression...have elsewhere claimed that Quakers have a tendency toward "liturgical...rather informal, "programmed" Quakers are generally open to a much...
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Among Friends: My Life as a Jew & a Quaker

Magazine article by Ernest Rubinstein; Commonweal, Vol. 132, January 14, 2005

Subjects:

Christianity--Personal narratives, Faith--Personal narratives, Faith--Practice, Judaism--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...discussion among Quakers today whether a...Baptist circles, the history of Judaism under...exist in Western history. But the Quakers, who count among...the messages the Quakers deliver at the...term enjoys a rich history of its own. It...

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Newspaper Articles on: quakers history

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Declinist Days and GOP Quakers

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 13, 1998

Subjects:

Republican Party

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Such polls have become the greatest propaganda tool in the history of civilized society, so much so as to make a master of propaganda...of deceit continually bamboozling masters of quake. The GOP Quakers certainly deserve such a sobriquet. There has never been a...
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Football: Quakers Chief Blasts Lack of Support

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 16, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Darlington Arena this season. The second-placed Quakers will be looking for their third consecutive...exciting and most successful times in its history. A successful football club will give...chooses the team to take on Mansfield. The Quakers have struggled to find enough strikers...
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Football: Quakers Have the Edge after First Leg; in Association with DARLINGTON

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), May 12, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...struck one of the best goals to grace the short history of the Darlington Arena to help give Quakers the edge against Rochdale. His opener paved...long range shot took a huge deflection off Quakers skipper Steve Foster. That wrong footed keeper...
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Football: So, We Meet Again; Quakers Back from Brink CHESTER CITY

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 28, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the fixture list. The Quakers have spent the vast majority of their long league history at this level, and it isnt...last met in 1999-2000. The Quakers had just been taken over...years under Reynolds saw the Quakers fortunes suffer both on...
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Keeper's Clanger Costs Quakers

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), September 12, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Keepers Clanger Costs Quakers. Byline: By Ray Simpsin...featured an article on the history of the guillotine, Darlingtons...clanger on the hour to put Quakers unbeaten away league record...Barker from a few yards out. Quakers skipper Matt Clarke pulled...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: quakers history

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Restoration , in English History

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...violently suppressed, and persecution spread to include the Quakers. The Cavalier Parliament, which assembled in 1661, restored...number of other poets. Bibliography See A. Nicoll, A History of Restoration Drama (1923); B. Willey, The Seventeenth Century...
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Slavery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...abolition had been hastened by the work of the Quakers, who, as in Great Britain, were staunchly...organized, was the dominant one in U.S. history from 1830 to 1860. The political expression...Ancient Greece at Work: An Economic History of Greece from the Homeric Period to the...
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Lubbock

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...on a branch of the Brazos River, it was settled in 1879 by Quakers. It is the trade center for the cotton- and grain-growing Great...Landmark State Historical Park is an archaeological and natural history preserve. Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock Christian College, and...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...on Aug. 9, the first president in the history of the republic to be driven from office...the highest public approval rating in history. Mounting domestic problems, however...of the worst race riots in recent U.S. history erupted in Los Angeles, killing 58, injuring...
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Oath

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...made by appealing to a deity. From the earliest days of human history, calling upon the gods of a community to witness the truth...persons with religious scruples against oath-taking (e.g., Quakers), but statutes have now generally been modified so that a witness...

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