Title Thumbnail

Linguistic and Cultural Foreign Policies of European States

18th-20th Centuries

Karène Sanchez-Summerer Willem Frijhoff Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn Konrad Schröder Nicola McLelland Derek Offord Paolo Pieraccini Henri Besse Vladislav Rjéoutski Lucien Bély

9789462980600
204 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
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 analysing 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.
Author Bio
Karène Sanchez Summerer is Professor of Middle Eastern studies at Groningen University. She is the PI of the VIDI research project CrossRoads. European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine: A connected history (1920–1950), The Netherlands National Research Agency (2017–22). 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.