Kamusella, Tomasz, 2021. Words in Space and Time: Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press.

Abstract

Words in Space and Time is an informative book by Tomasz Kamusella, a political scientist and historian at the University of St. Andrews, UK, and a leading expert on Central European history and nationalism, who is, however, not a linguist. It is both formidable and beautiful, printed on larger than A4 size sheets and with a nicely designed cover, licensed under a Creative Commons license, and thus legally downloadable section by section (https://muse.jhu.edu/book/97875). This work has forty-two short chapters with just as many maps (on pp. 1-176), followed by a fifty-two-page glossary (177–229), a bibliography (231– 250), and an index of place names created by John Puckett and including cities, countries, regions, and political, administrative, and ecclesiastical entities, as well as geographical names (251–289). The volume grew out of Kamusella’s work on the extensive, almost twelve-hundredpage 2009 monograph of The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. Although the Table of