Despite shifting trends in the study of Oceanic Atlantic history,
the colonial Atlantic world as it is described by historians today
continues to be a largely English-only space; even when other
language communities are examined, they, too, are considered to be
monolingual and discrete. Babel of the Atlantic pushes back against
this monolingual fallacy by documenting multilingualism,
translation, and fluid movement across linguistic borders. Focusing
on Philadelphia and surrounding areas that include Germantown,
Bethlehem, and the so-called Indian country to the west, this
volume demonstrates the importance of viewing inhabitants not as
members of isolated language communities, whether English, German,
Lenape, Mohican, or others, but as creators of a vibrant zone of
mixed languages and shifting politics. Organized around four
themes—religion, education, race and abolitionism, and material
culture and architecture—and drawing from archives such as
almanacs, newspapers, and the material world, the chapters in this
volume show how polyglot, tolerant, and multilingual spaces
encouraged diverse peoples to coexist. Contributors examine
subjects such as the multicultural Moravian communities in colonial
Pennsylvania, the Charity School movement of the 1750s, and the
activities of Quaker abolitionists, showing how educational and
religious movements addressed and embraced cultural and linguistic
variety. Drawing early American scholarship beyond the normative
narrative of monolingualism, this volume will be invaluable to
historians and sociolinguists whose work focuses on Pennsylvania
and colonial, revolutionary, and antebellum America. In addition to
the editor, the contributors include Craig Atwood, Patrick M.
Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Katherine Faull, Wolfgang Flügel,
Katharine Gerbner, Maruice Jackson, Lisa Minardi, Jürgen Overhoff,
and Birte Pfleger.
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