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Friends and Neighbors: Group Life in America's First Plural Society (review)

Friends and Neighbors: Group Life in America's First Plural Society (review) 50Quaker History The two volumes commemorate the tercentenary of the founding of Pennsylvania in the best possible way--by helping more of us understand more of it. Wesleyan UniversityRichard T. Vann Friends and Neighbors: Group Life in America 's First Plural Society. By Michael Zuckerman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.255 pp. $29.95. Friends and Neighbors is a collection of eight essays on colonial and Revolutionary Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Of the eight essays four treat only the Quakers and are the subject of most of this review. A fifth treats the Scots in New Jersey and another Anglicans in Philadelphia. In a seventh Laura Becker investigates the diversity ment the theme of the collection as well as the others do. and interrelations among groups in Reading, Pennsylvania. The last essay, on the Continental Army at Valley Forge, does not compleIn this essay 'The Birth of the "Modern Family" in Early America,' Barry Levy attributes to the Quaker family a unique place in history. Historians generally hold that not until the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century were families characterized by voluntary, affectionate marriages, nuclear households with financial independence, fewer chilren, and tender, intensive rearing of children. Had families followed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaker History Friends Historical Association

Friends and Neighbors: Group Life in America's First Plural Society (review)

Marietta, Jack D.
Quaker History , Volume 73 (1) – Apr 4, 1984
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50Quaker History The two volumes commemorate the tercentenary of the founding of Pennsylvania in the best possible way--by helping more of us understand more of it. Wesleyan UniversityRichard T. Vann Friends and Neighbors: Group Life in America 's First Plural Society. By Michael Zuckerman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.255 pp. $29.95. Friends and Neighbors is a collection of eight essays on colonial and Revolutionary Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Of the eight essays four treat only the Quakers and are the subject of most of this review. A fifth treats the Scots in New Jersey and another Anglicans in Philadelphia. In a seventh Laura Becker investigates the diversity ment the theme of the collection as well as the others do. and interrelations among groups in Reading, Pennsylvania. The last essay, on the Continental Army at Valley Forge, does not compleIn this essay 'The Birth of the "Modern Family" in Early America,' Barry Levy attributes to the Quaker family a unique place in history. Historians generally hold that not until the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century were families characterized by voluntary, affectionate marriages, nuclear households with financial independence, fewer chilren, and tender, intensive rearing of children. Had families followed

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Published: Apr 4, 1984

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