New World Babel : : Languages and Nations in Early America / / Edward G. Gray.
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 s...
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Gray, Edward G., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut New World Babel : Languages and Nations in Early America / Edward G. Gray. Core Textbook Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©1999 1 online resource (200 p.) : 1 Map 10 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 73 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I. New World Babel -- Chapter II. Language and Conversion -- Chapter III. The Burden of Translation -- Chapter IV. The Savage Word -- Chapter V. Science of the Vanished -- Chapter VI. An American Poetics -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Indians of North America Languages. Language and culture. Language and languages Philosophy. HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 9783110413441 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package American History 9783110413489 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691603445 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400864966 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400864966 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400864966.jpg |
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