Roberto Garvía explores the history of artificial spoken or written languages and the people who fought for them. Taking the three most prominent—Volapük, E

The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over

"A history of Esperanto, the utopian "universal language" invented in 1887"--

This book explores the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War. Offering further developments in an innovativ