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With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time. The story first focuses on Central Europe’s dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two centuries. The main storyline opens with the emergence of the Western European concept of the nation, in accord with which the ethnolinguistic nation-states of Italy and Germany were founded. In the Central European view, a “proper” nation is none other than the speech community of a single language. The Atlas aspires to help users make the intellectual leap of perceiving languages as products of human history and part of culture. Like states, nations, universities, towns, associations, art, beauty, religions, injustice, or atheism—languages are artefacts invented and shaped by individuals and their groups.

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Author:   Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
Edition:   Annotated edition
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9789633864173

ISBN 10:   9633864178
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   15 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword Anngret Simms Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Languages and I 1. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, Ninth Century 2. Central Europe’s Writing Systems in the Ninth Century 3. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1050 4. Central Europe’s Writing Systems, 1050 5. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1570 6. Central Europe’s Writing Systems, 1570 7. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1721 8. Central Europe’s Writing Systems,1721 9. Europa Media anno 1721: The Latin-Language Geogrpahy of Early Modern Central Europe 10. Official Languages in Central Europe, 1721 11. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe Before the Balkan Wars 12. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1910 13. Central Europe’s Writing Systems,1910 14. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 1910 15. Central Europe in 1910 as Seen Through the Lens of Ottoman Turkish 16. tsentral-eyrope in 1910: Yiddish Geography 17. Centra Eŭropo en 1910: Geographic and Place names in Esperanto 18. Short-lived Polities in Central Europe, 1908-1924  19. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During the Balkan Wars, World War I and in the Aftermath 20. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, late 1918 21. Non-State Minority, Regional and Unrecognized Languages, and Written Dialects in Central Europe, Nineteenth Through Twenty-First Centuries  22. Linguistic Areas (Sprachbünde) in Central Europe, c 1930 23. Linguistic Areas (Sprachbünde) in Central Europe: An Alternative Classification, c 1930 24. Central Europe's Writing Systems, 1930 25. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 1931 26. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During the 1930s 27. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During World War Two, 1939-1940 28. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During World War Two, 1941-1944 29. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe After World War Two, 1945–1950 30. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During the Cold War, 1951-89 31. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 1974–1989 32. Moldavian and Central Europe: Еуропа Чентралэ ын анул 1980 (Europa centrală in anul 1980) 33. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 2009 34. Central Europe's Writing Systems, 2009 35. Central Europe's Writing Systems in 2009 and the Past 36. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 2009 37. Management of Difference: Borders and Multiethnic Regions in Contemporary Central Europe 38. Management of Difference: Multiethnic Regions in Contemporary Central Europe 39. Central Europe's Universities with Other Media of Instruction than the State or National Language, 2009 40. Roma Settlements in Central Europe, 2009 41. Mitelojropa w 2009: The Silesian Language and Central Europe 42. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, and in East and Southeast Asia, 2009 Glossary Bibliography Index

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The author's grasp of historical events and cultural and political processes is evident on every page, as he provides detailed insights into the political processes of the region that have linguistic relevance: the instalment and use of writing systems, social and religious movements, independence movements, nationalism, the rise of nation states, and many other events, all described in copious yet relevant detail. This is truly an important work and should be used by scholars and students from many fields and for many years to come. http://ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ahea/article/viewFile/474/842 -- Anna Fenyvesi * Hungarian Cultural Studies * In circumstances, when theory is most eager for the factual side of historical development, the appearance of such books as T. Kamusella's seems to be of high significance. This review is very much needed, inspiring, and full of new ideas for investigation; it should be a handbook for everyone who is interested in language as a part of cultural, intellectual, national, and/or state history and also in comprehensive and not politically engaged studies. https://doi.org/10.5325/hiperboreea.9.2.0277 -- Liudmyla Novikova * Hiperboreea *

The author's grasp of historical events and cultural and political processes is evident on every page, as he provides detailed insights into the political processes of the region that have linguistic relevance: the instalment and use of writing systems, social and religious movements, independence movements, nationalism, the rise of nation states, and many other events, all described in copious yet relevant detail. This is truly an important work and should be used by scholars and students from many fields and for many years to come. http://ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ahea/article/viewFile/474/842 -- Anna Fenyvesi * Hungarian Cultural Studies *

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Tomasz Kamusella is reader in modern history in the School of History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, Britain.

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