The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe

This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.

Author: Peter Burke, T. Kamusella
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 1140
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.53lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.35w x 2.28d
ISBN: 9780230550704

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2009

About the Author
TOMASZ KAMUSELLA is Senior Lecturer at the University of Opole, Poland, and focuses on the issues of language politics, nationalism, ethnicity, and European integration. Recent books include Silesia and Central European Nationalisms and (co-edited in two-volumes) Nationalisms Across the Globe. In 2002-2006, he researched this new monograph, The Politics of Language and Nationalisms in Modern Central Europe, at the European University Institute, Florence; the John W Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington DC; the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna; and the Herder-Institut, Marburg, Germany.