After 1918 Central Europe’s multiethnic empires were replaced by nation-states, which gave rise to an unusual ethnolinguistic kind of nationalism. This book provides a detailed history and linguistic analysis of how the many languages of Central Europe have developed from the 10th century to the present day.
Table of Content
Introduction: (Central) Europe and the World 1. Preliminaries 2. Setting the Stage in Europe 3. The Question of the Middle 4. From Nationalism to the Internet Conclusion ?
About the author
Tomasz Kamusella is a Reader in the Institute of Transnational and Spatial History at the University of St Andrews, UK. He researches language politics in a comparative and interdisciplinary manner. His other interest is the rise and spread of ethnolinguistic nationalism as the primary ideology of nation-formation and state-building in Central Europe.
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