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A harmony of the spirits translation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania
Title
A harmony of the spirits [electronic resource] : translation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania / Patrick M. Erben.
ISBN
9781469601342 (ebook) :
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 335 p.) : ill.
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
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Summary
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'.
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North Carolina scholarship online.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 06, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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