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Babel of the Atlantic
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"A collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with...
"A collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- edited by Bethany Wiggin
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0271083980, 9780271083230, 9780271084008, 9780271083988, 0271084006, 0271083239
- OCLC
- on1262307403, on1099790538, on1134485524, on1049270093
- Includes contributor bios (pages 299-301).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : multilingual soundings in the colonial Mid-Atlantic : "differences of manners, languages and extraction, was now no more" / Bethany Wiggin -- "Wie ein Nimrod/like a nimrod" : Babel, confusion, and coercive bilingualism in the eighteenth-century Mid-Atlantic / Patrick M. Erben -- The Moravian threat to the Old World establishment / Craig Atwood -- Women, migration, and Moravian mission : negotiating Pennsylvania's colonial landscapes / Katherine Faull -- Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphia Academy, Halle, and Göttingen / Jürgen Overhoff -- German or English? : Halle's pastors in Pennsylvania and the search for the right language, 1742-1820 / Wolfgang Flügel -- Writing against slavery : Germantown, Quakers, and the ethnic origins of early antislavery thought / Katharine Gerbner -- "Ein schrecklicher Zustand" : race, slavery, and gradual emancipation in Pennsylvania / Birte Pfleger -- How the Quakers worked with Moravians, Germans, the French, the British, and enslaved and free Africans : all in the antislavery cause / Maurice Jackson -- Communicating through wood and stone : building a new world identity in Pennsylvania / Cynthia G. Falk -- Germans in colonial Philadelphia : ethnicity, hybridity, and the material world / Lisa Minardi
Subjects
- Multilingualism -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
- Multilingualism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century.
- Multilingualism -- Middle Atlantic States -- History -- 18th century.
- Pennsylvania -- Religion -- History -- 18th century.
- Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.