Ethnic Groups and Language Rights
1st Edition
Published on 28. March 1993
Book
Hardback
342 pages
978-1-85521-096-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is one in a series of eight books, published in association with the European Science Foundation, which looks at the problems associated with ethnic groups and minorities over a time span of a hundred years, from the middle of the 19th Century to the beginning of the Second World War i.e. the peak years for national conflicts in Europe.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
maps
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85521-096-7 (9781855210967)
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Content
Contents: Ethnic groups and language rights; Belgium on the way to equal language rights; Precarious language rights under changing governments: Alsace; The Catalan language in the conflict between centralism and autonomism; Rhaeto-Romansh in Switzerland; An ethnic mosaic - Austria before 1918; Transition of the Slovaks from a non-dominant ethnic group? to a dominant nation?; The decline of minority language rights in South Tyrol 1918-1940; Language use and public authorities in Czechoslovakia 1918-1940; The minority problems of Poland 1918-1939; Language rights in the Baltic States 1918-1940; The case of the Swedish ethnic group in Finland; The non-existant Sami language rights in Norway; Different experience with language rights in Europe; Judicial and administrative language use - a legal perspective.