| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe
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Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe.
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| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Multilingualism -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
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Multilingualism. |
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Pennsylvania. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Multilingualism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century.
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Multilingualism -- Middle Atlantic States -- History -- 18th century.
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Middle Atlantic States. |
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Pennsylvania -- Religion -- History -- 18th century.
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Religion. |
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Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
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Antislavery movements. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Wiggin, Bethany, 1972- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0271083239 |
| ISBN |
9780271083988 (electronic book) |
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0271083980 (electronic book) |
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9780271084008 |
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0271084006 |
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9780271083230 |
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0271083239 |
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