Babel of the Atlantic / edited by Bethany Wiggin.
| Other author | Wiggin, Bethany, 1972- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019] |
| Description | xiii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe |
| 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 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019001033 |
| ISBN | 9780271083230 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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