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In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. This book challenges the long-standing historical myth - first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin - that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. It deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the 'holy experiment'.
Language and culture --- Language and languages --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Variation. --- Pennsylvania --- Languages --- History. --- Languages. --- Culture
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Language and culture --- Language and languages --- Variation --- Pennsylvania --- History. --- Languages
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"A comprehensive overview of the writings of Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, lawyer, educator, and early modern polymath. Includes many of Pastorius's unpublished manuscripts as well as new translations of German-language tracts printed in his lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
American poetry --- German Americans --- Quakers --- Friends --- Friends (Quakers) --- Society of Friends --- Ethnology --- Germans --- Pastorius, Francis Daniel, --- Pastorius, Franz Daniel, --- P., F. D., --- Pastorius, F. D. --- Knowledge and learning. --- Books and reading. --- Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) --- Germanton (Philadelphia, Pa.) --- Germantaun (Philadelphia, Pa.) --- Germantown, Pa. --- History.
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"A collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture"--Provided by publisher.
Antislavery movements --- Multilingualism --- Multilingualism --- Multilingualism --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Pennsylvania --- Religion --- History
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William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career. Contributors analyze the worlds that shaped Penn and the worlds that he shaped: Irish, English, American, Quaker, and imperial. The eighteen chapters in The Worlds of William Penn shed critical new light on Penn's life and legacy, examining his early and often-overlooked time in Ireland; the literary, political, and theological legacies of his public career during the Restoration and after the 1688 Revolution; his role as proprietor of Pennsylvania; his religious leadership in the Quaker movement, and as a loyal lieutenant to George Fox, and his important role in the broader British imperial project. Coinciding with the 300th anniversary of Penn's death the time is right for this examination of Penn's importance both in his own time and to the ongoing campaign for political and religious liberty
Penn, William, 1644-1718 --- Pioneers --- Quakers --- Pennsylvania --- Biography & Autobiography --- Religion --- History --- Penn, william, 1644-1718 --- Biography & autobiography
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