The policies relating to language pursued by European monarchies and states have been widely studied, but far less attention has been given to their linguistic and cultural policies in territories outside their own borders. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to filling that gap, distinguishing and analysing several different types of linguistic and foreign cultural policies. Such policies, the contributors show, tended not to be proclaimed officially, but they nonetheless had lasting effects on both language and culture in Europe and beyond.

Contributions by: Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn, Konrad Schröder, Nicola McLelland, Derek Offord, Paolo Pieraccini, Henri Besse, Vladislav Rjéoutski, Lucien Bély, Gilles Siouffi