Babel of the Atlantic / edited by Bethany Wiggin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Wiggin, Bethany, 1972- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe.

The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements.

History.

Multilingualism.

Religion.

Pennsylvania--Religion--History--18th century.

Pennsylvania.

Middle Atlantic States.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Multilingualism--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.

Multilingualism--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Multilingualism--Middle Atlantic States--History--18th century.

Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]

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.

"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, raceand the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture"--Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes contributor bios (pages 299-301).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Zebooker fund bookplate.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780271083230

0271083239

OCLC:

1049270093