What is it about?
This book seeks to approach language diversity in multi-ethnic communities of the Habsburg Empire by focusing critically on the urban-rural divide and the importance of status for multilingual competence and language diversity in local governments, schools, the army, and the urban public sphere.
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Why is it important?
The book's ambition is to offer the first comprehensive overview of language diversity for the entire territory of the Habsburg Monarchy, placing emphasis on the experiences and encounters at urban frontiers and the linguistic policies and practices in transition.
Perspectives
This book approaches this topic critically, informed by recent scholarship in Habsburg studies that focus on aspects that actually bound the empire’s diverse population together, as well as of the dangers of equating historical precedents and their contemporary applicability.
Dr Markian Prokopovych
Durham University
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This page is a summary of: Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the Editors, July 2019, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004407978_002.
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