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"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 mater...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wiggin, Bethany, 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
Colección:Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe.
Temas:
1700-1799
Multilingualism > Pennsylvania > History > 18th century.
Multilingualism > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 18th century.
Multilingualism > Middle Atlantic States > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > Pennsylvania > History > 18th century.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Multilinguisme > États du Moyen-Atlantique (États-Unis) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Multilinguisme > Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Multilinguisme > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Antislavery movements.
Multilingualism.
Religion.
Pennsylvania > Religion > History > 18th century.
Pennsylvanie > Religion > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Middle Atlantic States.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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