Babel of the Atlantic /

Babel of the Atlantic / / ed. by Bethany Wiggin.

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Despite shifting trends in the study of Oceanic Atlantic history, the colonial Atlantic world as it is described by historians today continues to be a largely English-only space; even when other language communities are examined, they, too, are considered to be monolingual and discrete. Babel of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Atwood, Craig,
Erben, Patrick M.,
Falk, Cynthia G.,
Faull, Katherine,
Flügel, Wolfgang,
Gerbner, Katharine,
Jackson, Maurice,
Minardi, Lisa,
Overhoff, Jürgen,
Pfleger, Birte,
Wiggin, Bethany,
HerausgeberIn:
Wiggin, Bethany,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2019
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 44 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Multilingual Soundings in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic: "Differences of Manners, Languages and Extraction, Was Now No More"?
  • Part 1 New World, New Religions
  • Chapter 1 " Wie ein Nimrod / Like a Nimrod" Babel, Confusion, and Coercive Bilingualism in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic
  • Chapter 2 The Moravian Threat to the Old World Establishment
  • Chapter 3 Women, Migration, and Moravian Mission Negotiating Pennsylvania's Colonial Landscapes
  • Part 2 The Languages of Education and Established Religions
  • Chapter 4 Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphia Academy, Halle, and Göttingen
  • Chapter 5 German or English? Halle's Pastors in Pennsylvania and the Search for the Right Language, 1742-1820
  • Part 3 The Languages of Race and (Anti-) Slavery
  • Chapter 6 Writing Against Slavery Germantown, Quakers, and the Ethnic Origins of Early Antislavery Thought
  • Chapter 7 " Ein schrecklicher Zustand" Race, Slavery, and Gradual Emancipation in Pennsylvania
  • Chapter 8 How the Quakers Worked with Moravians, Germans, the French, the British, and Enslaved and Free Africans All in the Antislavery Cause
  • Part 4 The Languages of Wood and Stone
  • Chapter 9 Communicating Through Wood and Stone Building a New World Identity in Pennsylvania
  • Chapter 10 Germans in Colonial Philadelphia Ethnicity, Hybridity, and the Material World
  • Contributors
  • Index

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