A perfect Babel of confusion :: Dutch religion and English culture in the middle colonies /

Examining the interaction of the Dutch and the English in colonial New York and New Jersey, this study charts the decline of European culture in North America. Balmer argues that the combination of political intrigue, English cultural imperialism, and internal socio-economic tensionseventually drove...

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1. Verfasser: Balmer, Randall Herbert
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002, ©1989.
Schriftenreihe:Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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Zusammenfassung:Examining the interaction of the Dutch and the English in colonial New York and New Jersey, this study charts the decline of European culture in North America. Balmer argues that the combination of political intrigue, English cultural imperialism, and internal socio-economic tensionseventually drove the Dutch away from their hereditary customs, language, and culture. He shows how this process, which played itself out most visibly and poignantly in the Dutch Reformed Church between 1664 and the American Revolution, illustrates the difficulty of maintaining non-English culturesand institutions in an increasingly English world. A Perfect Babel of Confusion redresses some of the historiographical neglect of the Middle Colonies and, in the process, sheds new light on Dutch colonial culture.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 258 pages.)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index.
ISBN:1429401419
9781429401418
9780195152654
0195152654
0195058739
9780195058734

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