New World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America

by Edward G. Gray

Book Overview

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. The work...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691017050
• ISBN13: 9780691017051
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 10.0"