Languages and Culture in History
About the Book Series
Co-founding editor: Willem Frijhoff, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands †
The series studies the role foreign languages have played in the creation of linguistic and cultural heritage, at the individual, communal, national and transnational level.
At the heart of this series is the historical evolution of linguistic and cultural policies, internal as well as external, and their relationship with linguistic and cultural identities.
The series takes an interdisciplinary approach to a variety of historical issues: the diffusion, the supply and the demand for foreign languages, the history of pedagogical practices, the historical relationship between languages in a given cultural context, the public and private use of foreign languages – in short, every way foreign languages intersect with local languages in the cultural realm.
Editorial Board: Alice Burrows, University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, Federico Gobbo, University of Amsterdam, Gerda Hassler, University of Potsdam, Aurélie Joubert, University of Groningen, Douglas A. Kibbee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Marie-Christine Kok Escalle, Utrecht University, Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam, Nicola McLelland, The University of Nottingham, Despina Provata, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Vladislav Rjéoutski, German Historical Institute, Paris, Valérie Spaëth, University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, Javier Suso López, University of Granada, Pierre Swiggers, KU Leuven
To submit proposals, please contact the Editor at Routledge, Dorothea Schaefter ([email protected]).
Two Centuries of English Language Teaching and Learning in Spain: 1769-1970
1st Edition
By Alberto Lombardero Caparrós
December 01, 2025
This book provides an exhaustive historical account of how the English language was taught and learnt in Spain over two centuries. Since its origins back in 1769 with the publication of San Joaquín de Pedro's 'Gramática inglesa' until 1970, a key year in European and World affairs. A period of time...
Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory: Melodramas of the Foreign Tongue
1st Edition
By Tingting Hui
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In our globalized world, a unique type of intercultural encounter has emerged: that between the speaking body and the foreign language. From Vladimir Nabokov and Maxine Hong Kingston to Yoko Tawada, writers have vividly captured the tensions and possibilities of this encounter—where tongues are “...
Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Irving, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Rachel Mairs, Lucia Admiraal
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Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior to the Second World War – were fundamental. European state nationalisms influenced and ...
The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru
1st Edition
By Zanna Van Loon
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How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents? The handwritten and printed missionary books produced in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and ...
Francophonie and the Orient: French-Asian Transcultural Crossings (1840-1940)
1st Edition
By Mathilde Kang
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Based on transnational France-Asia approaches, this book studies Asian cultures once steeped in French civilisation but free of a colonial mode in order to highlight the transliterary examples of cultural transfer. This book is a pioneering study of the Francophone phenomenon within the context of ...
Francophonie en Orient: Aux croisements France-Asie (1840-1940)
1st Edition
By Mathilde Kang
October 27, 2017
This book offers a pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civilisation in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures. It raises a number of provocative questions, including ...