A Perfect Babel of Confusion

Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-515265-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 393 g

Reihe: Religion in America

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balmer, Randall Herbert

Balmer, Randall

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Reformierte Kirchen, Calvinisten, presbyterianische Kirchen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde