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Babel of the Atlantic / edited by Bethany Wiggin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Multilingualism--Middle Atlantic States--History--18th century.
- Multilingualism.
- Multilingualism--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.
- Multilingualism--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.
- Pennsylvania--Religion--History--18th century.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages :) illustrations, maps ;
- 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.
- 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 bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271084008
- 0271084006
- 9780271083988
- 0271083980
- OCLC:
- 1134485524
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