The policies relating to language pursued by European monarchies and states have been widely studied, but far less attention has been given to their linguistic and cultural policies in territories outside their own borders. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to filling that gap, distinguishing and analyzing several different types of linguistic and foreign cultural policies. Such policies, the contributors show, tended not to be proclaimed officially, but they nonetheless had lasting effects on both language and culture in Europe and beyond.
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1 External linguistic politics and policies in the German-speaking countries of Central Europe in early modern times and in the nineteenth century With some references to the present age |
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2 German global soft power, 1700--1920 |
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3 French as a polemical language for Russian writers in the age of Nicholas I |
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4 The external cultural and linguistic policy of the Italian government in the Mediterranean region and the issue of the National Association for Aid to Missionaries (1886--1905) |
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5 Expansion du francais et des manieres franchises en Europe aux dix-septieme et dix-huitieme siecles Resultat d'une politique royale exterieure ou effet d'un certain prestige? |
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6 Literary translation as a foreign language policy tool The case of Russia, mid-eighteenth -- early nineteenth centuries |
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7 L'usage diplomatique de la langue francaise, instrument de la puissance? |
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8 The political implications of the idea of genie de la langue in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries |
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Karčne Sanchez Summerer is Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern studies at Groningen University, specializing in a relational cultural and social history of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and its communities. She has published on multilingualism and language policy in Palestine during the Ottoman and British Mandate periods. Her last publications include Unsilencing Palestine 1922-1923. Hundred years after Frank Scholtens visit to the Holy Land, Contemporary Levant, 2024; Orthodoxy and solidarity: Niqula Khourys journey to the League of Nations (with S. Irving) in Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause. The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods, edited by Erik Freas, Routledge, 2024. Willem Frijhoff is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at VU University, Amsterdam, and is now G.Ph. Verhagen Professor of Cultural History at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. His scholarly work focuses on cultural, linguistic and religious identities in early modern France, the Netherlands and North America.
