The 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.  

Contents
Introduction: William Penn and his Worlds – Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski 
    
Part I Materials, History, Memory
1.The Elusive Body of William Penn - Elizabeth Milroy
2.Where William Penn Slept (And Why it Matters) - Catharine Dann Roeber
3.Beyond the Bounds: Exploitation and Empire in the First Map of Pennsylvania - Emily Mann

Part II Irish Worlds
4.William Penn, William Petty, and Surveying: the Irish Connection - Marcus Gallo
5.The Irish Worlds of William Penn: Culture, Conflict and Connections - Audrey Horning
6.The Roads to and From Cork: The Irish Origins of William Penn’s Theory of Religious Toleration - Andrew R. Murphy

Part III Restoration Worlds
7.New Worlds and Holy Experiments in the Restoration Literature of Milton, Bunyan, and Penn - Elizabeth Sauer
8.William Penn and James II - Scott Sowerby
9.William Penn, German Pietist(?) - Patrick M. Erben

Part IV American Worlds
10.“Rancontyn Marenit”: Lenape Peacemaking Before William Penn - Michael Goode
11.William Penn, John Winthrop, and Colonial Political Science - Alexander Mazzaferro
12.Religion and Revolution in New England: 1689 - Sarah A. Morgan Smith
Quaker Worlds
13.William Penn as Preface Writer, Historian, and Controversialist - Catie Gill
14.Quakers and Political Discernment in the Early Restoration - Adrian Chastain Weimer
15.From Puritan to Quaker: Mary Dyer and Puritan-Quaker Conversion in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic - Rachel Love Monroy

Part V Imperial Worlds
16.Pennsylvania’s Religious Freedom in Comparative Colonial Context - Evan Haefeli
17.William Penn and Security Communities: A Career - Patrick Cecil
18.William Penn’s Imperial Landscape: Improvement, Political Economy, and Colonial Agriculture in the Pennsylvania Project - Shuichi Wanibuchi