A perfect babel of confusion
Dutch religion and English culture in the middle colonies
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Author
Publication
1989 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
64,500 words, Guess
Page Count
258 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2047983M
- ISBN-100195058739
- OCLC Control Number18350033
- OCLC Control Numberperfectbabelofco0000balm
- Library of Congress Control Number88025241
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- LibraryThing1088392
- Goodreads3804942
Classifications
- DDC285.7/747
- LCCBX9496.N7 B35 1989
Description
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 tensions eventually 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 cultures and 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.
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Series Statement
- Religion in America series
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- A perfect babel of confusion: Dutch religion and English culture in the middle colonies
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