Research Catalog

Title

Ethnic groups and language rights / edited by S. Vilfan ; in collaboration with G. Sandvik and L. Wils.

Publication

New York, NY ; Aldershot, Hants, England : Published for the European Science Foundation by New York University Press : Dartmouth Pub. Co., ©1993.

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Additional Authors

• Vilfan, Sergij.
• Sandvik, Gudmund.
• Wils, Lode.

Description

xiii, 321 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This is one in a series of eight books which looks at the problems associated with ethnic groups and minorities over a time span of 100 years, from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of World War II - the peak years for national conflicts in Europe.

Series Statement

Comparative studies on governments and non-dominant ethnic groups in Europe, 1850-1940 ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Comparative studies on governments and non-dominant ethnic groups in Europe, 1850-1940 ; v. 3.

Subject

• Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc. > History. > Europe
• Ethnic relations
• Language and languages
• Language and languages > Law and legislation
• Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc
• Minorités > Statut juridique > Histoire. > Europe
• Europe > Languages > Law and legislation > History
• Europe > Languages > History
• Europe > Ethnic relations > History
• Europe
• Europe, Western > Ethnic relations > History
• Europe, Western > Languages > Law and legislation > History
• Europe, Western > Languages > History
• Europe > Langues > Histoire
• Europe > Relations interethniques > Histoire
• Europe > Langues > Droit > Histoire

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Credits (note)

• At foot of title: European Science Foundation.

Contents

Introduction / Sergij Vilfan -- Belgium on the path to equal language rights up to 1939 / Lode Wils -- Precarious language rights under changing governments : the case of Alsace, 1850-1940 / Frédéric Hartweg -- The Catalan language in the conflict between centralism and autonomy, 1850-1940 / Antoni Milian i Massana -- Rhaeto-Romansh in Switzerland up to 1940 / Bernard Cathomas -- An ethnic mosaic -- Austria before 1918 / Sergij Vilfan -- The transition of the Slovaks from a non-dominant ethnic group to a dominant nation / Jozef Karpat -- The decline of minority language rights in south Tyrol, 1918-1940 / Ludwig Walther Regele -- Majorities and minorities in an inverted position : Czechoslovakia, 1918-1939 / Helmut Slapnicka -- The minority problem of Poland, 1918-1939 / Pawel Korzec -- Language rights in independent Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 1918-1940 / Deitrich André Loeber -- The case of the Swedish ethnic group in Finland, 1850-1940 / Tore Modeen -- Non-existent Sami language rights in Norway, 1850-1940 / Gudmund Sandvik -- Conclusion : a historical perspective / Lode Wils -- Conclusion : a legal perspective / Bruno De Witte.

ISBN

• 0814787630
• 9780814787632
• 1855210967
• 9781855210967

LCCN

90042345

OCLC

• ocm23868817
• 23868817
• SCSB-8885808

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library