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History Of The Rise And Progress Of The Methodist Episcopal Church In The Wawarsing And Mamakating Valleys (Hardcover): John G.... History Of The Rise And Progress Of The Methodist Episcopal Church In The Wawarsing And Mamakating Valleys (Hardcover)
John G. Gray
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Parliamentary Government Considered with Reference to Reform (Hardcover): Henry G Grey Parliamentary Government Considered with Reference to Reform (Hardcover)
Henry G Grey
R2,067 Discovery Miles 20 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution (Hardcover): Edward G. Gray, Jane Kamensky The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution (Hardcover)
Edward G. Gray, Jane Kamensky
R4,914 Discovery Miles 49 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution introduces scholars, students and generally interested readers to the formative event in American history. In thirty-three individual essays, by thirty-three authorities on the Revolution, the Handbook provides readers with in-depth analysis of the Revolution's many sides, ranging from the military and diplomatic to the social and political; from the economic and financial, to the cultural and legal. Its cast of characters ranges far, including ordinary farmers and artisans, men and women, free and enslaved African Americans, Indians, and British and American statesmen and military leaders. Its geographic scope is equally broad. The Handbook offers readers an American Revolution whose geo-political and military impact ranged from the West Indies to the Mississippi Valley; from the British Isles to New England and from Nova Scotia to Florida. The American Revolution of the Handbook is, simply put, an event that far transcended the boundaries of what was to become the United States. In addition to a breadth of subject matter, the Handbook offers a broad range of interpretive and methodological approaches. Its authors include social historians, historians of politics and institutions, cultural historians, historians of diplomacy, imperial historians, ethnohistorians, and historians of gender and sexuality. Instead of privileging a single or even several interpretive perspectives, the Handbook attempts to capture the full scope of current revolutionary-era scholarship. Nothing comparable has been published in decades.

The Making of John Ledyard - Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler (Hardcover): Edward G. Gray The Making of John Ledyard - Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler (Hardcover)
Edward G. Gray
R2,049 Discovery Miles 20 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751-1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert Morris, Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others. Ledyard lived and traveled in remarkable places as well, journeying from the New England backcountry to Tahiti, Hawaii, the American Northwest coast, Alaska, and the Russian Far East. In this engaging biography, the historian Edward Gray offers not only a full account of Ledyard's eventful life but also an illuminating view of the late eighteenth-century world in which he lived.
Ledyard was both a product of empire and an agent in its creation, Gray shows, and through this adventurer's life it is possible to discern the many ways empire shaped the lives of nations, peoples, and individuals in the era of the American Revolution, the world's first modern revolt against empire.

The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 (Paperback): Edward G. Gray, Norman Fiering The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 (Paperback)
Edward G. Gray, Norman Fiering
R892 Discovery Miles 8 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of historians, in part because many of these indigenous languages have since become extinct. And yet the burden of overcoming America's language barriers was perhaps the one problem faced by all peoples of the New World in the early modern era: African slaves and Native Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley; Jesuit missionaries and Huron-speaking peoples in New France; Spanish conquistadors and the Aztec rulers. All of these groups confronted America's complex linguistic environment, and all of them had to devise ways of transcending that environment - a problem that arose often with life or death implications. For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact and communication that took place between the Europeans and the "Natives." A particularly important aspect of this fascinating collection is the way it demonstrates the interactive nature of the encounter and how Native peoples found ways to shape and adapt imported systems of spoken and written communication to their own spiritual and material needs.

Managing the Corporate Image - The Key to Public Trust (Hardcover): James G. Gray Managing the Corporate Image - The Key to Public Trust (Hardcover)
James G. Gray
R2,222 Discovery Miles 22 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tackling head-on the problem of defining and managing an organizational image, especially in a crisis, Gray offers detailed guidelines for setting up a successful image program that communicates well with an organization's constituency. Through case studies, interviews with executives, and theory, he also examines how organizations have coped with enhancing and reshaping public perceptions. "Association Management"

James G. Gray, Jr., deals directly with the problem of defining and managing the corporate image, especially in times of crisis. While examining the concept of corporate image, he offers detailed guidelines for establishing a corporate image program that communicates effectively with a corporation's various constituencies. Blending practical business case studies, interviews with business leaders, and public communications theory, he examines how companies like Atlantic Richfield, Johnson and Johnson, Sovran Bank, and Giant Food have coped with enhancing and reshaping public perceptions. Gray considers the role of management, media relations, employee concerns, community relations, consumer concerns, external visual image symbols (vital components of a corporate image program, as well as strategies of concern to business/government relations), corporate PACs, and lobbying. He clearly defines the publics of major concern to industry and offers guidelines for managing the corporate image with these publics. Finally, he offers a means of measuring the effectiveness and success of the image-making methods and concepts he proposes. This checklist is especially useful for assessing the value of existing programs and for establishing new ones.

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Hardcover): Bede The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Hardcover)
Bede; Edited by J.A. Giles; Revised by G. Gray
R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The venerable Bede (AD 672-735) was not the first historian of the British Isles, but he was the first to to list and master his documentary and oral sources. For a man who travelled little, he showed a great depth of understanding about the outside world, informing himself by commissioning others to copy documents in the Papal Regista and various episcopal and monastic archives. This new edition has been carefully revised by Gerrish Gray and is beautifully typeset in Bembo type.

Strategies and Skills of Technical Presentations - A Guide for Professionals in Business and Industry (Hardcover): James G. Gray Strategies and Skills of Technical Presentations - A Guide for Professionals in Business and Industry (Hardcover)
James G. Gray
R2,208 Discovery Miles 22 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Introduction to the Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory for Porous Medium Systems (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): William G.... Introduction to the Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory for Porous Medium Systems (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
William G. Gray, Cass T. Miller
R4,465 Discovery Miles 44 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thermodynamically constrained averaging theory provides a consistent method for upscaling conservation and thermodynamic equations for application in the study of porous medium systems. The method provides dynamic equations for phases, interfaces, and common curves that are closely based on insights from the entropy inequality. All larger scale variables in the equations are explicitly defined in terms of their microscale precursors, facilitating the determination of important parameters and macroscale state equations based on microscale experimental and computational analysis. The method requires that all assumptions that lead to a particular equation form be explicitly indicated, a restriction which is useful in ascertaining the range of applicability of a model as well as potential sources of error and opportunities to improve the analysis.

Ladder of Lights: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Tree of Life and the Four Worlds of the Qabalists, Including the Angelic and... Ladder of Lights: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Tree of Life and the Four Worlds of the Qabalists, Including the Angelic and Archangelic R (Paperback)
William G. Gray
R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A step-by-step guide to the Tree of Life and the Four Worlds of the Qabalists. Gray is the foremost authority on magic and the Qabalah.

The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 (Hardcover): Edward G. Gray, Norman Fiering The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 (Hardcover)
Edward G. Gray, Norman Fiering
R3,023 Discovery Miles 30 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of historians, in part because many of these indigenous languages have since become extinct. And yet the burden of overcoming America's language barriers was perhaps the one problem faced by all peoples of the New World in the early modern era: African slaves and Native Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley; Jesuit missionaries and Huron-speaking peoples in New France; Spanish conquistadors and the Aztec rulers. All of these groups confronted America's complex linguistic environment, and all of them had to devise ways of transcending that environment - a problem that arose often with life or death implications. For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact and communication that took place between the Europeans and the "Natives." A particularly important aspect of this fascinating collection is the way it demonstrates the interactive nature of the encounter and how Native peoples found ways to shape and adapt imported systems of spoken and written communication to their own spiritual and material needs.

American Military History - A Survey From Colonial Times to the Present (Paperback, 3rd edition): William Thomas Allison,... American Military History - A Survey From Colonial Times to the Present (Paperback, 3rd edition)
William Thomas Allison, Jeffrey G. Grey, Janet G. Valentine
R2,442 Discovery Miles 24 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Now in its third edition, American Military History examines how a country shaped by race, ethnicity, economy, regionalism, and power has been equally influenced by war and the struggle to define the role of a military in a free and democratic society. Organized chronologically, the text begins at the point of European conflict with Native Americans and concludes with military affairs in the early 21st century, providing an important overview of the military's role on an international, domestic, social, and symbolic level. The third edition is fully updated to reflect recent developments in military policy and the study of military history and war and society, thus providing students a foundational understanding of the American military experience. This book will be of interest to students of American history and military history. It is designed to allow instructors flexibility in structuring a course.

American Military History - A Survey From Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover, 3rd edition): William Thomas Allison,... American Military History - A Survey From Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
William Thomas Allison, Jeffrey G. Grey, Janet G. Valentine
R4,755 Discovery Miles 47 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Now in its third edition, American Military History examines how a country shaped by race, ethnicity, economy, regionalism, and power has been equally influenced by war and the struggle to define the role of a military in a free and democratic society. Organized chronologically, the text begins at the point of European conflict with Native Americans and concludes with military affairs in the early 21st century, providing an important overview of the military's role on an international, domestic, social, and symbolic level. The third edition is fully updated to reflect recent developments in military policy and the study of military history and war and society, thus providing students a foundational understanding of the American military experience. This book will be of interest to students of American history and military history. It is designed to allow instructors flexibility in structuring a course.

Mason-Dixon - Crucible of the Nation: Edward G. Gray Mason-Dixon - Crucible of the Nation
Edward G. Gray
R1,022 R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Save R196 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first comprehensive history of the Mason-Dixon Line—a dramatic story of imperial rivalry and settler-colonial violence, the bonds of slavery and the fight for freedom. The United States is the product of border dynamics—not just at international frontiers but at the boundary that runs through its first heartland. The story of the Mason-Dixon Line is the story of America’s colonial beginnings, nation building, and conflict over slavery. Acclaimed historian Edward Gray offers the first comprehensive narrative of the America’s defining border. Formalized in 1767, the Mason-Dixon Line resolved a generations-old dispute that began with the establishment of Pennsylvania in 1681. Rivalry with the Calverts of Maryland—complicated by struggles with Dutch settlers in Delaware, breakneck agricultural development, and the resistance of Lenape and Susquehannock natives—had led to contentious jurisdictional ambiguity, full-scale battles among the colonists, and ethnic slaughter. In 1780, Pennsylvania’s Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery inaugurated the next phase in the Line’s history. Proslavery and antislavery sentiments had long coexisted in the Maryland–Pennsylvania borderlands, but now African Americans—enslaved and free—faced a boundary between distinct legal regimes. With the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, the Mason-Dixon Line became a federal instrument to arrest the northward flow of freedom-seeking Blacks. Only with the end of the Civil War did the Line’s significance fade, though it continued to haunt African Americans as Jim Crow took hold. Mason-Dixon tells the gripping story of colonial grandees, Native American diplomats, Quaker abolitionists, fugitives from slavery, capitalist railroad and canal builders, US presidents, Supreme Court justices, and Underground Railroad conductors—all contending with the relentless violence and political discord of a borderland that was a transformative force in American history.

Magical Ritual Methods (Paperback): William G. Gray Magical Ritual Methods (Paperback)
William G. Gray
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A complete treatise and practical guide to ceremonial magic and magical rituals.

The Sangreal Tarot (Paperback): William G. Gray The Sangreal Tarot (Paperback)
William G. Gray
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For students on the magical path, this new tarot study will show you how to combine the tarot with the Sangreal symbolism for your own conscious development. Knowing how to work with the cards opens the door for a personal journey so you can incorporate magical and kabbalistic techniques into your daily life.

Wildlife and People - THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF WILDLIFE ECOLOGY (Paperback): Gary G. Gray Wildlife and People - THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF WILDLIFE ECOLOGY (Paperback)
Gary G. Gray
R747 Discovery Miles 7 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wildlife and People focuses on the human aspect of the animal-habitat-human triad, providing an introduction to virtually every discipline - from anthropology and history to socioeconomics - included in the human dimensions of wildlife ecology. Gary Gray maintains that the most fruitful approach to wildlife ecology grants coequality to wild animal population biology, the ecology and management of wildlife habitats, and the disciplines that consider wildlife in relation to human culture. He concentrates on socioeconomic aspects of habitat-animal-human interactions in a broad time-space-species perspective, examining topics ranging from aboriginal human-wildlife relationships to consumptive uses of wildlife and wildlife law, policy, and administration.

Introduction to the Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory for Porous Medium Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of... Introduction to the Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory for Porous Medium Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
William G. Gray, Cass T. Miller
R4,836 Discovery Miles 48 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thermodynamically constrained averaging theory provides a consistent method for upscaling conservation and thermodynamic equations for application in the study of porous medium systems. The method provides dynamic equations for phases, interfaces, and common curves that are closely based on insights from the entropy inequality. All larger scale variables in the equations are explicitly defined in terms of their microscale precursors, facilitating the determination of important parameters and macroscale state equations based on microscale experimental and computational analysis. The method requires that all assumptions that lead to a particular equation form be explicitly indicated, a restriction which is useful in ascertaining the range of applicability of a model as well as potential sources of error and opportunities to improve the analysis.

Top Secret - Escape from Iran (Hardcover): G. Gray Garland Top Secret - Escape from Iran (Hardcover)
G. Gray Garland
R793 Discovery Miles 7 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A wealthy American businessman, who manufactures exotic metals the Iranians desperately require, is requested by the president and the CIA to undertake a dangerous mission by going to a very hostile Iran to visit an old college American friend, who lives in Iran, helping the Iranians to purchase banned goods, including metals for weapons of mass destruction. He goes reluctantly accompanied by a beautiful CIA operative. His mission: to persuade his friend and an important Iranian scientist to defect.

The Daily Thomas Paine - A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age (Paperback): Thomas Paine The Daily Thomas Paine - A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age (Paperback)
Thomas Paine; Edited by Edward G. Gray; Foreword by Edward G. Gray
R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a Founding Father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets Common Sense and The American Crisis, Paine codified both colonial outrage and the intellectual justification for independence, arguing consistently and convincingly for Enlightenment values and the power of the people. Today, we are living in times that, as Paine famously said, "try men's souls." Whatever your politics, if you're seeking to understand the political world we live in, where better to look than Paine? The Daily Thomas Paine offers a year's worth of pithy and provocative quotes from this quintessentially American figure. Editor Edward G. Gray argues that we are living in a moment that Thomas Paine might recognize--or perhaps more precisely, a moment desperate for someone whose rhetoric can ignite a large-scale social and political transformation. Paine was a master of political rhetoric, from the sarcastic insult to the diplomatic apercu, and this book offers a sleek and approachable sampler of some of the sharpest bits from his oeuvre. As Paine himself says in the entry for January 20: "The present state of America is truly alarming to every man who is capable of reflexion." The Daily Thomas Paine--the newest addition to the University of Chicago Press's ongoing series of collected wisdom from notable writers--should prove equally incendiary and inspirational for contemporary readers with an eye for politics, even those who prefer the tweet to the pamphlet.

Theory of Molecular Fluids - Volume 2: Applications (Hardcover): Christopher G. Gray, Keith E. Gubbins, Christopher G. Joslin Theory of Molecular Fluids - Volume 2: Applications (Hardcover)
Christopher G. Gray, Keith E. Gubbins, Christopher G. Joslin
R3,970 R3,497 Discovery Miles 34 970 Save R473 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Existing texts on the statistical mechanics of liquids treat only spherical molecules. However, nearly all fluids of practical interest are composed of non-spherical molecules that are often dipolar or exhibit other kinds of electrostatic forces. This book describes the statistical mechanical theory of fluids of non-spherical molecules and its application to the calculation of physical properties, and is a sequel to Theory of Molecular Fluids. Volume 1: Fundamentals by C.G. Gray and K.E. Gubbins. The emphasis is on the new phenomena that arise due to the non-spherical nature of the intermolecular forces, such as new phase transitions, structural features and dielectric effects. It contains chapters on the thermodynamic properties of pure and mixed fluids, surface properties, X-ray and neutron diffraction structure factors, dielectric properties and spectroscopic properties. The book is aimed at beginning graduate students and research workers in chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering.

The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution (Paperback): Edward G. Gray, Jane Kamensky The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution (Paperback)
Edward G. Gray, Jane Kamensky
R1,779 Discovery Miles 17 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to life the diverse multitudes of colonial North America and their extraordinary struggles before, during, and after the eight-year-long civil war that secured the independence of thirteen rebel colonies from their erstwhile colonial parent. The chapters explore battles and diplomacy, economics and finance, law and culture, politics and society, gender, race, and religion. Its diverse cast of characters includes ordinary farmers and artisans, free and enslaved African Americans, Indians, and British and American statesmen and military leaders. In addition to expanding the Revolution's who, the Handbook broadens its where, portraying an event that far transcended the boundaries of what was to become the United States. It offers readers an American Revolution whose impact ranged far beyond the thirteen colonies. The Handbook's range of interpretive and methodological approaches captures the full scope of current revolutionary-era scholarship. Its authors, British and American scholars spanning several generations, include social, cultural, military, and imperial historians, as well as those who study politics, diplomacy, literature, gender, and sexuality. Together and separately, these essays demonstrate that the American Revolution remains a vibrant and inviting a subject of inquiry. Nothing comparable has been published in decades.

New World Babel - Languages and Nations in Early America (Paperback): Edward G. Gray New World Babel - Languages and Nations in Early America (Paperback)
Edward G. Gray
R1,055 Discovery Miles 10 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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.

Beginning with the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and using rarely seen first-hand accounts of colonial missionaries and administrators, the author shows that European explorers and colonists generally regarded American-Indian languages, like all languages, as a divine endowment that bore only a superficial relationship to the distinct cultures of speakers. By relating these accounts to thinkers like Locke, Adam Smith, Jefferson, and others who sought to incorporate their findings into a broader picture of human development, he demonstrates how, during the eighteenth century, this perception gave way to the notion that language was a human innovation, and, as such, reflected the apparent social and intellectual differences of the world's peoples.

The book is divided into six chronological chapters, each focusing on different aspects of the Euro-American response to indigenous languages. "New World Babel" will fascinate historians, anthropologists, and linguists--anyone interested in the history of literacy, print culture, and early ethnological thought.

Originally published in 1999.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell G.c.m.g.: 1836 To 1899 - The Forgotten Colonial Governor (Hardcover): Michael G Gray Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell G.c.m.g.: 1836 To 1899 - The Forgotten Colonial Governor (Hardcover)
Michael G Gray
R2,824 Discovery Miles 28 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first known biography of Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell G C M G, former Governor of the Straits Settlements and District Grand Master of the freemasons in the Eastern Archipelago.The book traces his early life as an officer in the Royal Marines, where he served for 15 years, ending up with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, as well as his long, distinguished career in the Colonial Service, serving Queen Victoria in many countries including Natal in Southern Africa during and after the Zulu Wars, British Honduras, British Guiana, Fiji and Singapore.It is his time in Singapore that is given extensive treatment in the book. Having been sworn in as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of The Straits Settlements and their Dependencies (the 'Colony') on 1 February 1894, Mitchell inherited a colony, which was in very serious financial difficulty. With his prudent financial management, the governor brought the Colony back to a strong financial position and completed many projects. He was also instrumental in the implementation of the Federation of Malay States and was its first High Commissioner.His governorship was cut short when he died suddenly at the Colony's Government House (the current Istana) on 7 December 1899 and was buried in Singapore.However, his legacy was written out by his successor Sir Frank Swettenham who would take credit for the Colony's achievements. To this end, this book will go towards correcting the history of Singapore and Malaya at that time.The book also contains one of the very few public accounts of freemasonry in Singapore during the 19th Century and those of prominent freemasons participating in the colonial administration and commercial sector in the Colony.

New World Babel - Languages and Nations in Early America (Hardcover): Edward G. Gray New World Babel - Languages and Nations in Early America (Hardcover)
Edward G. Gray
R2,531 Discovery Miles 25 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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. Beginning with the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and using rarely seen first-hand accounts of colonial missionaries and administrators, the author shows that European explorers and colonists generally regarded American-Indian languages, like all languages, as a divine endowment that bore only a superficial relationship to the distinct cultures of speakers. By relating these accounts to thinkers like Locke, Adam Smith, Jefferson, and others who sought to incorporate their findings into a broader picture of human development, he demonstrates how, during the eighteenth century, this perception gave way to the notion that language was a human innovation, and, as such, reflected the apparent social and intellectual differences of the world's peoples. The book is divided into six chronological chapters, each focusing on different aspects of the Euro-American response to indigenous languages. New World Babel will fascinate historians, anthropologists, and linguists--anyone interested in the history of literacy, print culture, and early ethnological thought. Originally published in 1999. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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