9781560008309-156000830X-Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia

Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9781560008309
ISBN-10: 156000830X
Edition: 2
Author: E. Digby Baltzell
Publication date: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 604 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781560008309
ISBN-10: 156000830X
Edition: 2
Author: E. Digby Baltzell
Publication date: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 604 pages

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Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (ISBN-13: 9781560008309 and ISBN-10: 156000830X), written by authors E. Digby Baltzell, was published by Routledge in 1996. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other State & Local (United States History, European History, Philosophy, Demography, Social Sciences, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used State & Local books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $7.91.

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Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation. At the same time, comparable Philadelphia families such as the Biddles, Cadwaladers, Ingersolls, and Drexels have contributed far fewer leaders to their state and nation. From the days of Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Girard down to the present, what leadership there has been in Philadelphia has largely been provided by self-made men, often, like Franklin, born outside Pennsylvania.

Baltzell traces the differences in class authority and leadership in these two cites to the contrasting values of the Puritan founders of the Bay Colony and the Quaker founders of the City of Brotherly Love. While Puritans placed great value on the "calling" or devotion to one's chosen vocation, Quakers have always placed more emphasis on being a good person than on being a good judge or statesman. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia presents a provocative view of two contrasting upper classes and also reflects the author's larger concern with the conflicting values of hierarchy and egalitarianism in American history.

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