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by Edward G. Gray (Editor); Norman Fiering (Editor)
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- Title The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
- Author Edward G. Gray (Editor); Norman Fiering (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berghahn Books
- Date 2001-01-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781571811608 / 1571811605
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.74 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99034723
- Dewey Decimal Code 409.7
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Berghahn Books, 2001. Trade Paperback. A fine copy; no dust jacket. When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of historians, in part because many of these indigenous languages have since become extinct. And yet the burden of overcoming America's language barriers was perhaps the one problem faced by all peoples of the New World in the early modern era: African slaves and Native Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley; Jesuit missionaries and Huron-speaking peoples in New France; Spanish conquistadors and the Aztec rulers. All of these groups confronted America's complex linguistic environment, and all of them had to devise ways of transcending that environment - a problem that arose often with life or death implications. For the first time, historians,…
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