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New World Babel
Edward G. Gray
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Description for New World Babel
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 Map 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFLA; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 28.
New World Babel is an innovative cultural and intellectual history of the languages spoken by the native peoples of North America from the earliest era of European conquest through the beginning of the nineteenth century. By focusing on different aspects of the Euro-American response to indigenous speech, Edward Gray illuminates the ways in which Europeans' changing understanding of "language" shaped their relations with Native Americans. The work also brings to light something no other historian has treated in any sustained fashion: early America was a place of enormous linguistic diversity, with acute social and cultural problems associated with multilingualism. ... Read more
New World Babel is an innovative cultural and intellectual history of the languages spoken by the native peoples of North America from the earliest era of European conquest through the beginning of the nineteenth century. By focusing on different aspects of the Euro-American response to indigenous speech, Edward Gray illuminates the ways in which Europeans' changing understanding of "language" shaped their relations with Native Americans. The work also brings to light something no other historian has treated in any sustained fashion: early America was a place of enormous linguistic diversity, with acute social and cultural problems associated with multilingualism. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691603445
SKU
V9780691603445
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Reviews for New World Babel
"Gray [covers] a vast range of very diverse material, much of it unknown and unread by modern scholars."—Anthony Pagden, The Johns Hopkins University "A substantial contribution to American intellectual history and to our understanding of how white presumptions shaped the attitudes toward Indian language and culture."—Kenneth Cmiel, University of Iowa