New World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America

by Edward G. Gray

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691603448

ISBN13:9780691603445

Release Date:July 2014

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.63 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Americas Anthropology Colonial Period Cultural Foreign Languages History Humanities Linguistics Native American Social Science Social Sciences Words, Language & Grammar

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