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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Core Textbook |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 1 Map 10 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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