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form a cohesive voting bloc. Most striking is their behavior during the Seven Years War. In contrast to their fellow members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in the Pennsylvania legislature, Quaker assemblymen simply abstained from voting on war issues. They remained in the legislature in large numbers until the Revolution finally forced them out of office. This short review hardly does justice to the sophistication of Purvis's work, especially its use of quantitative methods, roll-call analysis, and collective biography. In short, Purvis has done everything that an historian ought to do and deserves considerable credit for it.