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Title:
Babel of the Atlantic / edited by Bethany Wiggin.
Publisher:
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Multilingualism--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.
Multilingualism--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--18th century.
Multilingualism--Middle Atlantic States--History--18th century.
Pennsylvania--History--History--18th century.
Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.
Antislavery movements.
Multilingualism.
Religion.
Middle Atlantic States.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
1700-1799
History.
Other Authors:
Wiggin, Bethany, 1972- editor.
Notes:
Includes contributor bios (pages 299-301). Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 Go˜ttingen / Ju˜rgen Overhoff -- German or English? : Halle's pastors in Pennsylvania and the search for the right language, 1742-1820 / Wolfgang Flu˜gel -- 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.
Summary:
"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.
Series:
The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe
ISBN:
0271083239
9780271083230
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1049270093
LCCN:
2019001033
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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