New World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America

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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 E

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"Gray [covers] a vast range of very diverse material, much of it unknown and unread by modern scholars."Anthony Pagden, The Johns Hopkins University
"A substantial contribution to American intellectual history and to our understanding of how white presumptions shaped the attitudes toward Indian language and culture."Kenneth Cmiel, University of Iowa