Geoffrey Plank: 6 books
John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom
A Quaker in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The abolitionist John Woolman (1720-72) has been described as a "Quaker saint," an isolated mystic, singular even among a singular people. But as historian Geoffrey Plank recounts, this tailor, hog producer, shopkeeper, schoolteacher, and prominent Quaker minister was very much enmeshed...
An Unsettled Conquest
The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies...
Rebellion and Savagery
The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led—the Jacobite Rising of 1745—was...
by Geoffrey Plank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic...
by Geoffrey Plank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic...
by Geoffrey Plank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic...