Postcards, Translators and Esperanto Pioneers: An Alternative History of International Communication - Hardcover

by Guilherme Fians (Author), Bernhard Struck (Author), Claire Taylor (Author)

Esperanto has a rich and multifaceted history. Delving into a fascinating microhistory of a Scottish family and the ways in which they used Esperanto to build transnational networks across Europe, this book shows how ordinary Esperanto speakers used the language in its early decades. It explores how languages and media help shape the ways in which we build our worlds through words, providing an alternative, "marginal" approach to early twentieth-century globalisation.

Author Biography

Bernhard Struck is a reader in modern history at the University of St Andrews and founding director of the St Andrews Institute for Transnational and Spatial History. Guilherme Fians is a social anthropologist, Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, and member of the board of directors of the Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems. Claire Taylor is a final-year English and modern history student at the University of St Andrews.