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Words in Space and Time

A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe

By: Tomasz Kamusella

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Words in Space and Time

A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe

By: Tomasz Kamusella

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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Central European University Press

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Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia

From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation

By: Asnake Kefale,Tomasz Kamusella,Christophe Van der Beken

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Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia

From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation

By: Asnake Kefale,Tomasz Kamusella,Christophe Van der Beken

This book is a contribution to the global history of the transfer of political ideas, as exemplified by the case of modern Ethiopia. Like many non-European nation-states, Ethiopia adopted a western model of statehood, that is, the nation-state. Unlike the postcolonial polities that have retained the mode of statehood imposed on them by their colonial powers, Ethiopia was never successfully colonized leaving its ruling elite free to select a model of ‘modern’ (western) statehood. In 1931, via Japan, they adopted the model of unitary, ethnolinguistically homogenous nation-state, in turn copied by Tokyo in 1889 from the German Empire (founded in 1871). Following the Ethiopian Revolution (1974) that overthrew the imperial system, the new revolutionary elite promised to address the ‘nationality question’ through the marxist-leninist model. The Soviet model of ethnolinguistic federalism (originally derived from Austria-Hungary) was introduced in Ethiopia, first in 1992 and officially with the 1995 Constitution. To this day the politics of modern Ethiopia is marked by the tension between these two opposed models of the essentially central European type of statehood. The late 19th-century ‘German-German’ quarrel on the ‘proper’ model of national statehood for Germany – or more broadly, modern central Europe – remains the quarrel of Ethiopian politics nowadays. The book will be useful for scholars of Ethiopian and African history and politics, and also offers a case in comparative studies on the subject of different models of national statehood elsewhere.

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1000383555

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Politics and the Slavic Languages

By: Tomasz Kamusella

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Politics and the Slavic Languages

By: Tomasz Kamusella

During the last two centuries, ethnolinguistic nationalism has been the norm of nation building and state building in Central Europe. The number of recognized Slavic languages (in line with the normative political formula of language = nation = state) gradually tallied with the number of the Slavic nation-states, especially after the breakups of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. But in the current age of borderless cyberspace, regional and minority Slavic languages are freely standardized and used, even when state authorities disapprove. As a result, since the turn of the 19th century, the number of Slavic languages has varied widely, from a single Slavic language to as many as 40. Through the story of Slavic languages, this timely book illustrates that decisions on what counts as a language are neither permanent nor stable, arguing that the politics of language is the politics in Central Europe. The monograph will prove to be an essential resource for scholars of linguistics and politics in Central Europe.

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1000395995

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Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War

The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria

By: Tomasz Kamusella

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Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War

The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria

By: Tomasz Kamusella

In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the postwar expulsions (‘population transfers’) of ethnic Germans from Central Europe in the latter half of the 1940s. Furthermore, this expulsion of Turks and Muslims from Bulgaria was the sole unilateral act of ethnic cleansing that breached the Iron Curtain. The 1989 ethnic cleansing was followed by an unprecedented return of almost half of the expellees, after the collapse of the Bulgarian communist regime. The return, which partially reversed the effects of this ethnic cleansing, was the first-ever of its kind in history. Despite the unprecedented character of this 1989 expulsion and the subsequent return, not a single research article, let alone a monograph, has been devoted to these momentous developments yet. However, the tragic events shape today’s Bulgaria, while the persisting attempts to suppress the remembrance of the 1989 expulsion continue sharply dividing the country’s inhabitants. Without remembering about this ethnic cleansing it is impossible to explain the fall of the communist system in Bulgaria and the origins of ethnic cleansing during the Yugoslav wars. Faltering Yugoslavia’s future ethnic cleansers took a good note that neither Moscow nor Washington intervened in neighboring Bulgaria to stop the 1989 expulsion, which in light of international law was then still the legal instrument of ‘population transfer.’ The as yet unhealed wound of the 1989 ethnic cleansing negatively affects the Bulgaria’s relations with Turkey and the European Union. It seems that the only way out of this debilitating conundrum is establishing a truth and reconciliation commission that at long last would ensure transitional justice for all Bulgarians irrespective of language, religion or ethnicity.

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1351062689

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The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity

By: Tomasz Kamusella

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The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity

By: Tomasz Kamusella

This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People’s Republic, and contemporary Poland. The year 1989 is seen as a clear point-break that allowed the Poles and their country to regain a ‘natural historical continuity’ with the ‘Second Republic,’ as interwar Poland is commonly referred to in the current Polish national master narrative. In this pattern of thinking about the past, Poland-Lithuania (nowadays roughly coterminous with Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia’s Kaliningrad Region and Ukraine) is seen as the ‘First Republic.’ However, in spite of this ‘politics of memory’ (Geschichtspolitik) – regarding its borders, institutions, law, language, or ethnic and social makeup – present-day Poland, in reality, is the direct successor to and the continuation of communist Poland. Ironically, today’s Poland is very different, in all the aforementioned aspects, from the First and Second Republics. Hence, contemporary Poland is quite un-Polish, indeed, from the perspective of Polishness defined as a historical (that is, legal, social, cultural, ethnic and political) continuity of Poland-Lithuania and interwar Poland.

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3319600362

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Silesia and Central European Nationalisms

The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848-1918

By: Tomasz Kamusella

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Silesia and Central European Nationalisms

The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848-1918

By: Tomasz Kamusella

This book analyzes the problems of nation building in the Central European region of Silesia in 1848 to 1918. The German ethnic model of nation building steeped in language and culture had been replicated in the case of Polish and Czech nationalisms. Silesia became a focal point as an area that was sought after by all three nations.

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Purdue University Press

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1557533717

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The Polish Elite and Language Sciences

A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology

By: Tomasz Zarycki

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The Polish Elite and Language Sciences

A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology

By: Tomasz Zarycki

This book revisits the modern history of Poland, from the perspective of its social sciences. The book makes this case study a model for the application of Bourdieu’s approach to the historical analysis of non-core Western societies. The book is, in other words, a reflexive study of the application of Bourdieu’s social theory. At the same time, it also critically studies the application of Western social theory in Poland, which is largely seen as a peripheral country. The study of Polish social sciences, with particular emphasis on linguistics and literary studies, points to the peculiar dynamics of peripheral intellectual and academic fields and their external dependencies. These insights offer a critical extension of Bourdieu’s theory of state and social elites beyond the Western core focusing on how the theories can be used in the reinterpretation and expansion of post-colonial theory, global history and comparative studies of post-communism. The book will be suitable for scholars and students of all those interested in the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu, global historical sociology, societies in Central and Eastern , socio-linguistics, literary studies and political sociology.

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Springer Nature

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3031073452

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Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium

By: T. Kamusella

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Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium

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After 1918 Central Europe's multiethnic empires were replaced by nation-states, which gave rise to an unusual ethnolinguistic kind of nationalism. This book provides a detailed history and linguistic analysis of how the many languages of Central Europe have developed from the 10th century to the present day.

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1137507845

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Silesia and Central European Nationalisms

The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848-1918

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The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848-1918

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The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity

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Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War

The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria

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The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria

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Transcultural things and the spectre of Orientalism in early modern Poland-Lithuania

By: Tomasz Grusiecki

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Transcultural things and the spectre of Orientalism in early modern Poland-Lithuania

By: Tomasz Grusiecki

Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland–Lithuania’s roots in the supposedly ‘Oriental’ land of Sarmatia, portrayals of fashions that purport to trace Polish culture back to a distant and revered past, Ottomanesque costumes worn by Polish ambassadors and carpets labelled as Polish despite their foreign provenance. These examples of invented tradition borrowed from abroad played a significant role in narrating and visualising the cultural landscape of Polish-Lithuanian elites. But while modern scholarship defines these objects as exemplars of national heritage, early modern beholders treated them with more flexibility, seeing no contradiction in framing material things as local cultural forms while simultaneously acknowledging their foreign derivation. The book reveals how artefacts began to signify as vernacular idioms in the first place, often through obscuring their non-local origin and tainting subsequent discussions of the imagined purity of national culture as a result.

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Manchester University Press

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1526164353

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Nationalisms Today

By: Tomasz Kamusella,Krzysztof Jaskułowski

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Nationalisms Today

By: Tomasz Kamusella,Krzysztof Jaskułowski

After the end of communism and the breakups of the studiously anational polities of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia into successor nation-states, nationalism and ethnicity returned to the fore of international politics. Earlier these forces had been relegated to the back burner of history when the Cold War struggle unfolded. But even then the process of decolonization had been none other but the gradual globalization of the nation and nation-state as the most legitimate forms of modern-day peoplehood and statehood. At present, nationalism is the sole uncontested global ideology of statehood legitimization. The ethnic variety of this ideology also forms the basis upon which stateless groups reinvent themselves as nations in order to be able to lay claim to territorial autonomy or separate statehood. This volume inaugurates a new Peter Lang book series, Nationalisms across the Globe, devoted to these burning issues, which shall influence the near future of the world. From a geographical perspective, this collection focuses mainly on Central and Eastern Europe and also Southern Africa. Significantly it also proposes novel theoretical approaches to the phenomena of nationalism and ethnicity.

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3039118838

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Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia

From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation

By: Asnake Kefale,Tomasz Kamusella,Christophe Van der Beken

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Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia

From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation

By: Asnake Kefale,Tomasz Kamusella,Christophe Van der Beken

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Words in Space and Time

Words in Space and Time

Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia

Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia

Politics and the Slavic Languages

Politics and the Slavic Languages

Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War

Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War

The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity

The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity

Silesia and Central European Nationalisms

Silesia and Central European Nationalisms

The Polish Elite and Language Sciences

The Polish Elite and Language Sciences

Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium

Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium

Silesia and Central European Nationalisms

Silesia and Central European Nationalisms

The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity

The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity

Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War

Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War

Transcultural things and the spectre of Orientalism in early modern Poland-Lithuania

Transcultural things and the spectre of Orientalism in early modern Poland-Lithuania

Nationalisms Today

Nationalisms Today

Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia

Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia

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