Babel of the Atlantic Jeffrey G. Silcock Carolyn Heilbrun

Carolyn Heilbrun

storyteller Leigh Jones Handal weaves tales of piracy

and techniques of analysis

Calling for effective action

most Southerners quietly accepted peonage

Babel of the Atlantic Jeffrey G. Silcock Carolyn HeilbrunDespite shifting trends in the study of Oceanic Atlantic history, the colonial Atlantic world as it is described by historians today continues to be a largely English only space; even when other language communities are examined, they, too, are considered to be monolingual and discrete. Babel of the Atlantic pushes back against this monolingual fallacy by documenting multilingualism, translation, and fluid movement across linguistic borders. Focusing