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Dangerous Language - Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin
Ulrich Lins
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Description for Dangerous Language - Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin
Hardback. Translator(s): Harris, A.; Tonkin, Humphrey. Num Pages: 299 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ZXP; CF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
This is Volume 1 of Dangerous Language. This book examines the rise of the international language Esperanto, launched in 1887 as a proposed solution to national conflicts and a path to a more tolerant world. The chapters in this volume chart the emergence of Esperanto as an answer to a widespread democratic desire for direct person-to-person international communication regardless of political boundaries. Its early success was limited, mostly because of the Czarist regime's suspicion of direct communication with foreigners, and, later, similar suspicion by dictatorial regimes generally. As speakers of a dangerous language, its adepts were harassed and ... Read more
This is Volume 1 of Dangerous Language. This book examines the rise of the international language Esperanto, launched in 1887 as a proposed solution to national conflicts and a path to a more tolerant world. The chapters in this volume chart the emergence of Esperanto as an answer to a widespread democratic desire for direct person-to-person international communication regardless of political boundaries. Its early success was limited, mostly because of the Czarist regime's suspicion of direct communication with foreigners, and, later, similar suspicion by dictatorial regimes generally. As speakers of a dangerous language, its adepts were harassed and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
532g
Number of Pages
299
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137549167
SKU
V9781137549167
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About Ulrich Lins
Ulrich Lins received his doctorate at the University of Cologne, Germany, with a dissertation on Japanese nationalism (published in 1976). For thirty years he worked for DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service in its headquarters in Bonn, and served two tours of duty as head of its office in Tokyo. He has edited numbers of books in German and Japanese ... Read more
Reviews for Dangerous Language - Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin
Humphrey Tonkin's English translation of Ulrich Lins' work ... offers a comprehensive analysis of the advent and diffusion of the International Language, charting its development from the embryonic wrangling of creator Lazar Zamenhof amidst the pogroms of the Russian Empire, to the language's reactionary reception by Nazi and Soviet authorities. ... Lins explores the invented language's history methodically and intimately, ... Read more