World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey Through the American Revolution

by Richard Godbeer

Book Overview

An intimate account of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of a Quaker pacifist couple living in Philadelphia

Historian Richard Godbeer presents a richly layered and intimate account of the American Revolution as experienced by a Philadelphia Quaker couple, Elizabeth Drinker and the merchant Henry Drinker, who barely survived the unique perils that Quakers faced during that conflict. Spanning a half-century before, during,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300219989
• ISBN13: 9780300219982
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"