London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World

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.

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 imperial expansion. (Geoffrey Plank, Quaker Studies, Vol. 21 (1), 2016)

Auteur
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.

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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.

Contenu
Contents 1. Quaker Institutional Structures 2. Communicating Religion with Friends 'Beyond the Seas' 3. Communicating Politics with Friends 'Beyond the Seas' 4. Quaker Merchants and Transatlantic Commercial Activity in London 5. The Trans-Atlantic Quaker Book Trade 6. Movement of People in the Quaker Atlantic 7. Colonial Perceptions