Truth in Many Tongues: Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire

Examines how the Spanish monarchy managed an empire of unprecedented linguistic diversity, making only sporadic efforts to propagate Spanish during the sixteenth century. Challenges the assumption that the pervasiveness of the Spanish language resulted from deliberate linguistic colonization.

• | Author: Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler
• | Publisher: Penn State University Press
• | Publication Date: March 04, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0271085991
• | ISBN-13: 9780271085999