To browse Academia. Hungarian Historical Review 11 2 : —, Tomasz Kamusella is a scholar from Poland whose main fields of research have been language politics, nationalism, and ethnicity, topics he has studied from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Hence, this interdisciplinary, encyclopedic atlas represents a synthesis of his previous work with the difference that cartography is now given a central place. Kamusella, Tomasz. Central European University Press, Einzelsprachen are imagined as self-contained entities, completely separate from one another. This radical discontinuity, at the conceptual level, can be easily translated into territorial discontinuity, or into a state frontier. 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.
Reviews: 'Kamusella has produced a magisterial study, ambitious in its aims but supported by original research as well as offering a synthesis of specialized contributions in a number of languages.
The concepts it uses and the conclusions it reaches about language and politics can be expected to provoke a more general discussion. It is likely to remain the standard work in its field for a generation. For those seeking information on language modernization in Central Europe or on case studies on the politics of language, this book is an excellent choice.
