Translating in Town: Local Translation Policies During the European 19th Century

By: Andrea Capuselli

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Translating in Town is the first attempt to uncover administrative and cultural multilingualism and translation practices in multilingual European communities during the long 19th century. Challenging the traditional narrative of nationalist, monolingual language ideologies, this book focuses instead upon translation policies which aimed to accommodate complex language situations with new democratic principles.

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