"In what ways has language been central to constructing, challenging and reconfiguring social and political boundaries? This volume traverses space and time to explore the construction of such boundar
In exploring the birth of a Dutch identity between 1780 and 1830, this book integrates nationalism studies with literary and linguistic history by highlighting scholarly study of the Dutch language as
This first volume in the series Language and Social Life is also the first monograph in English on the subject of language contact and conflict in Europe’s Low Countries, in this case treating the int