Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Barbara E. Addison Recent publications reflect the range of contemporary scholarship related to Quaker history. Methodologies and points of view are as varied as the topics. There is only one new publication directly related to George Fox. R.D. Hodges draws heavily upon the Journal to examine the experience of George Fox and the Healing Ministry (Guilford: Friends Fellowship of Healing, 1995). Other works on seventeenth-century Quakerism deal with its spread beyond the shores of Great Britain. Stefano Villani's latest work, ¡Primi Quaccheri e gli Ebrei (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1997), examines early Quakers' overtures to Italian Jews. After discussing the writings of Fell and Fox, he focuses on the dialogue with the Jewish community established by John Perrot and other Quaker missionaries to Italy. In his biography ofDublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community ofFriends, 1643-1707 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998), Richard L. Greaves describes how this friend ofPenn and Edmundson, who settled in Dublin in 1669, used his mercantile and social success on behalf of his fellow Friends, setting styles that continued to differentiate Irish from English Quakers. Several works deal with the interaction ofreligion, business and politics in the establishment of Pennsylvania. Mary K. Geiter looks especially at non-Quaker business interests in her article, "London Merchants and the Launching of Pennsylvania" (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 121.1/2 (Jan./Apr. 1997): 101-122). In another article, "The Restoration Crisis and the Launching of Pennsylvania, 1679-81" (The English Historical Review 112 (Apr. '97): 300-18), she goes further to elaborate the politics behind the granting of Penn's royal charter. Willis M. Rivinus expresses well the ambivalence in Penn's colonial policies in his discussion of William Penn and the Lenape Indians: An Account ofThese Original Indian Settlers and Their Refations with the White Colonists of Pennsylvania; Much ofit Recorded by William Penn Himself(New Hope, Penna.: the author, 1995). Penn was sympathetic to Native American culture, but he was also clearly a land speculator wanting to make a profit from his land deals with the Indians. One of the most important sources of information on the reading material available to early Pennsylvania Friends was the commonplace book known as the "Bee Hive" created by Mennonite Articles and Publications73 QuakerFrancis Daniel Pastorius. Drawing on the work ofLyman Riley and others, Alfred L. Brophy has produced the first printed bibliography of Pastorius's Quaker books in "The Quaker Bibliographic World of Francis Daniel Pastorius's Bee Hive" (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 122.3 (July 1998): 241-291). Two recent works on conflict in Pennsylvania touch tangentially on Quaker history. G. Pearson Cross's dissertation, "Collective Action in Colonial America: The Structural Determinants of Individual Participation in the Paxton Riots, 1763-64 (Ph.D., Brandeis, 1997), critiques the historiography surrounding one of the most important challenges to Quaker pacifism in the eighteenth century. In his article, "Republican Ideology and Wartime Reality: Thomas Mifflin's Struggle as the First Quartermaster General of the Continental Army, 1775-1778" (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 122.3 (July 1998): 179-210), Kurt Daniel Kortenhof absolves the Quakertumed -Patriot general of active corruption but not of poor management in the scandals that brought about his downfall. Neva Jean Specht's dissertation, "Mixed Blessing: Trans-Appalachian Settlement and the Society of Friends, 1780-1813" (Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1 998) examines the effect ofisolation on the Quaker community. She finds that, while religion played an essential role in the creation of community and cultural identity in the Trans-Appalachian settlement of Quakers, the same process that strengthened loyalties presented strong challenges to the cohesiveness and theological integrity of Friends. Quaker women are especially well represented in recent biography. In the second by-product of her genealogical studies, Hannah: The Story of Hannah Ingledew Janney, 1725-1818 (York: William Sessions, 1997), Polly Grose describes events in Revolutionary Pennsylvania through the eyes of a Quaker woman minister. In Dear Friends and Sisters: 25 Short Biographies ofQuaker Women (Reading, [England]: Sowie Press, 1998), Gil Skidmore covers the full chronology of Quaker history but focuses geographically...