Women, Migration and Moravian Mission: Negotiating Pennsylvania’s Colonial Landscapes

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Source Publication

Babel of the Atlantic: Language and Cultural Politics in Colonial Pennsylvania,

Publication Date

2019

Editor

Bethany Wiggin

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

City

University Park, Pennsylvania

ISBN

9780271083247

First Page

101

Last Page

128

Department

Comparative Humanities

Publisher Statement

The volume is successful in exposing the hidden and often underappreciated role that multilingualism played in colonial Philadelphia and its surrounds. Interpreting complex transatlantic networks and cultural change through the lens of multilingual and multicultural societies forces scholars from different disciplines and traditions to collaborate to achieve a more comprehensive, panoramic assessment of these developments. These concerted efforts reveal the complex, sometimes contradictory part that certain key figures such as Benjamin Franklin played in the establishment of societal and linguistic norms. -- publisher

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