London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Jordan Landes

   Pages 1-21

3. Quaker Institutional Structures

   • Jordan Landes

   Pages 22-36

4. Communicating Religion with Friends ‘Beyond the Seas’

   • Jordan Landes

   Pages 37-63

5. Communicating Politics with Friends ‘Beyond the Seas’

   • Jordan Landes

   Pages 64-83

6. Quaker Merchants and Trans-Atlantic Commercial Activity in London

   • Jordan Landes

   Pages 84-106

7. The Trans-Atlantic Quaker Book Trade

   • Jordan Landes

   Pages 107-125

8. Movement of People in the Quaker Atlantic

   • Jordan Landes

   Pages 126-146

9. Colonial Perceptions

   • Jordan Landes

   Pages 147-165

10. Conclusion

    • Jordan Landes

    Pages 166-170

11. Back Matter

    Pages 171-252

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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.

• Quaker History
• North Atlantic
• Quakers
• London
• Trans-Atlantic
• Early Modern History
• Religion
• perception
• play
• politics
• religion
• society
• structure
• trade

“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)

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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