TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiggin,Bethany
TI  - Babel of the Atlantic /edited by Bethany Wiggin
T2  - The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe
SN  - 9780271083988
AV  - F152 .B334 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - University Park, Pennsylvania
PB  - The Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Multilingualism
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Philadelphia
KW  - Middle Atlantic States
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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
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