In Babel's Shadow

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Summary

A comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany.

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Introduction	p. 1
Words Alive! Constructivist Theories of Language in Late-Enlightenment Prussia	p. 23
Urheimat Asien: German Nationhood and the "Indo-Germanic" Language Family, 1770-1830	p. 65
Urvolk Germania: Historicizing Language and the Nation in German Philology, 1806-72	p. 113
Urbild Hellas: Language, Classical Philology, and the Ancient Greeks, 1806-66	p. 159
Comparative Linguistics: Race, Religion, and Historical Agency, 1830-80	p. 197
Speakers and Subjectivity: Toward a Crisis of Linguistic Historicism, 1850-1900	p. 241
Conclusion	p. 283
Notes	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 361
Index	p. 399
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