Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires

Motoki Nomachi, Tomasz Kamusella (St. Andrew's University, United Kingdom)

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Routledge
06 May 2025

European history; First World War; Marxism & Communism; Nationalism; Fascism & Nazism

Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe

This volume probes into the mechanisms of how languages are created, legitimized, maintained, or destroyed in the service of the extant nation-states across Central Europe.

Through chapters from contributors in North America, Europe, and Asia, the book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the rise of the ethnolinguistic nation-state during the past century as the sole legitimate model of statehood in today’s Central Europe. The collection’s focus is on the last three decades, namely the postcommunist period, taking into consideration the effects of the recent rise of cyberspace and the resulting radical forms of populism across contemporary Central Europe. It analyzes languages and their uses not as given by history, nature, or deity but as constructs produced, changed, maintained, and abandoned by humans and their groups. In this way, the volume contributes saliently to the store of knowledge on the latest social (sociolinguistic) and political history of the region’s languages, including their functioning in respective national polities and on the internet.

Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires is a compelling resource for historians, linguists, and political scientists who work on Central and Eastern Europe.

Edited by: Motoki Nomachi, Tomasz Kamusella (St. Andrew's University, United Kingdom)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781032559988
ISBN 10: 1032559985
Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 06 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Motoki Nomachi is Professor in the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan. He researches Slavic language contact and linguistic typology, alongside the Slavic micro-languages. Recently, he wrote and edited Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions (2019). Tomasz Kamusella is Reader in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. His latest publications include Politics and the Slavic Languages (2021) and Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe (2021).