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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures
  6. Note from the authors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: Building worlds with words
  9. 1. Grassroots internationalism from small places: pen, ink and the forging of friendships in a constructed language
  10. 2. From learning the language to founding local clubs: the making of an Esperanto speaker
  11. 3. Gendered talk: Esperanto-speaking women and languages of egalitarianism
  12. 4. Speaking of the Lord to the master: John Beveridge, Ludwik Zamenhof and the Esperanto translation of the Bible
  13. Conclusion: The history of international communication via postcards and Esperanto
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index

Index

  • Aberdeen and Temair, Ishbel of, 73
  • activism / activist(s), 7, 9, 30, 44, 46–7, 66–7, 72–4, 79, 81–2, 102, 116
  • Akademio de Esperanto, 92
  • alphabet, script, 5, 19, 23, 47
  • Cyrillic, 19, 23
  • Latin, 5, 19, 23, 88
  • Amerika Esperantisto, 33, 48
  • anarchism, anarchist(s), 9, 30
  • Auld, William, 117
  • Australia, 2–3
  • Austria-Hungary, 27, 33–4, 44–5, 48, 56, 112
  • Červený Kostelec, 54
  • Hradec Králové, 27, 33–4, 41
  • Kutná Hora, 13, 34–5
  • Nový Bydžov, 13, 33–4
  • ‘battle of artificial languages’, 5, 9
  • beekeeping, beekeeper, 2, 10, 68
  • Belgium, 70, 96
  • Antwerp, 14, 34, 67, 69–71, 77
  • Belle Époque, La, 4, 8, 12, 21, 115
  • Bible, 14, 58, 87–104
  • Bible Translation Committee, 87–8, 91–5, 98–104
  • New Testament, 10, 14, 30, 56, 87–8, 90–104
  • Old Testament, 14, 78, 87–90, 96–104
  • Scriptures, 89–91, 93, 96–7, 100, 103
  • biography, biographies, 1, 9, 11, 15f, 18f, 30, 68
  • Bohemia, 34, 38, 54
  • Brazil, 3, 33–4, 49, 75–6, 96
  • Juiz de Fora, 75–6
  • Superaguy, 13, 33
  • Brazila Revuo Esperantista, 48
  • Britain, British Empire, 3, 20, 45, 72–4, 79, 87, 101
  • Bengal, 3, 45, 67
  • Madras, 33
  • British and Foreign Bible Society, 101
  • British Esperanto Association, 47, 50, 55, 58, 69–70
  • Pollen, John (president), 58
  • British Esperantist, The, 32, 49–50, 53, 70, 92
  • British Gold Coast, 116
  • Bujwid, Odo, 80
  • Bujwidowa, Kazimiera, 80–2
  • Bulgara Esperantisto, 27
  • Bulgaria, 9–10, 12, 19–27, 29, 34, 36, 54, 91, 112
  • Harmanli, 9, 13, 19–29, 35, 41, 115
  • Plovdiv, 26–7
  • Sofia, 26–7
  • China, 116
  • Churchill, Winston, 58
  • Cold War, 116
  • colonialism, colonial, 3–4, 88, 100, 113
  • community (definitions of), 7–8
  • community of practice, 7
  • Esperantujo, 7, 21
  • speech community, 7
  • Dia Regno, 91, 95
  • Dictionary, Vortaro, 7, 70, 88–9, 92, 98–9
  • Duolingo, 116
  • Dutch East Indies, 100
  • egalitarianism, egalitarian, 59, 65–7, 74, 81–2
  • England, 96
  • Birmingham, 45
  • Bradford, 45
  • Bristol, 45
  • Chester, 45
  • Colchester, 45
  • Deal, 45
  • Goole, 45
  • Kingston upon Thames, 45
  • Leamington, 45
  • Leeds, 91–2
  • London, 43, 55, 92, 94, 102–3
  • Manchester, 45
  • Newcastle, 47, 50
  • Norwich, 45
  • Sheffield, 45
  • Soham, 92
  • Esperantista Literatura Asocio (Esperanto Literature Association), 49, 77, 79
  • Espero Katolika, 91, 95, 99
  • Finland, 21, 27–9, 31–4, 36, 48–9, 54, 91, 96, 112
  • Helsinki, 29
  • Hyvinkää, 28
  • Karhula, 28–9
  • Kymi, 13, 27–31, 35, 41, 115
  • Tampere, 29
  • France, 8–9, 44–5, 48, 74
  • Boulogne-sur-Mer, 44
  • Fundamento de Esperanto, Unua Libro, 6, 25
  • generation, 6, 30, 42, 71–3, 80–1
  • of activists for women’s emancipation, 79
  • of Esperanto speakers, 2, 21, 29, 49, 68, 88, 92
  • Germana Esperanto-Gazeto, 48–9
  • Germany, 45, 69, 77, 91
  • Berlin, 11, 80
  • Dresden, 35, 49–50, 52, 54, 56, 65, 67, 69–71, 74–5, 77, 80, 111
  • Flöha, 33
  • Nürnberg, 26
  • Schwerin, 77
  • Georgia, 33
  • Tiflis, 33
  • globalisation, 2–4, 14, 21, 29, 35, 43, 88, 95, 98, 111, 114–15
  • Hankel, Marie, 49–50, 59, 77–9
  • Henderson, Alice Alexandra, 67
  • inclusion, inclusiveness, 48, 66–7, 71, 73–4, 81, 103–4
  • Internacia Katolika Unuigo Esperantista (International Union of Catholic Esperantists), 95
  • Internacia Scienca Revuo, 80
  • International Auxiliary Language Association, 6, 43, 66
  • Internationalism, 3, 8, 10, 14, 21, 24, 34–5, 43, 60, 98, 111, 116
  • Grassroots internationalism, 3, 14, 21, 34, 112–13, 116–17
  • imperialism, 4–5, 26, 44, 88, 113
  • Jarlibro (yearbook), 24–6, 29, 31, 34
  • Jespersen, Otto, 66
  • jute (trade and industry), 3, 26, 45–6, 67, 115
  • King, Janette, 44, 46–7, 50
  • Kristana Espero, 30
  • Kristana Esperantista Ligo Internacia (International League of Christian Esperantists, KELI), 87
  • knowledge (production and circulation), 8, 74, 80, 82, 104
  • Lamb, Alexander Crawford, and his hotel, 44, 46, 51
  • language
  • Ancient Greek, 1, 14, 87–8, 90–7
  • Bulgarian, 19, 23, 26
  • Constructed language(s), 1–3, 5–7, 9, 20, 41–2, 44, 66, 87, 91, 103, 114
  • English, 1–3, 5–6, 11, 23, 49, 51, 68, 79, 80–1, 88, 92–3, 97, 99
  • French, 1, 3, 5–6
  • German, 6, 80, 97
  • Hebrew, 87, 90, 97–100
  • Ido, 6
  • International auxiliary language(s), 1, 3, 5–6, 10–13, 27, 31, 35, 43, 54–6, 60, 66, 89, 102, 111–14
  • language ideology(ies), 88
  • Latin, 1, 5, 19, 23, 97, 103
  • Norwegian, 2, 68, 97, 115
  • Novial, 6
  • Polish, 1, 66, 77–9
  • Volapük, 6, 56, 91
  • language learning (materials), 10, 30, 33, 42, 47, 49, 50, 54, 73, 112
  • Lanti, Eugène, 9, 11
  • League of Nations, 6
  • literary corpus, literature, 8, 13, 33, 48, 66, 77–9, 81, 89, 116
  • maritime trade, 3
  • margins, marginal, periphery, 9–10, 12–14, 21, 35, 43, 81, 114–15
  • Mears, Isabella, 70
  • middle class(es), middle-class, 1, 8, 31, 35, 66, 68–9, 73
  • Morris, Alice Vanderbilt, 66
  • multilingualism, multilingual, 1, 6, 9–10, 14, 26, 35, 43, 68, 87–8, 96, 111, 114
  • ‘new woman’, 71–3, 77
  • Nobel Prize, 79–81, 117
  • Norway, 2, 68, 115
  • Orzeszkowa, Eliza, 66, 78–80, 89
  • Olympic Games, 14
  • Ostwald, Wilhelm, 80
  • Page, William Main, 87, 91–3, 102
  • Pankhurst, Emmeline, 66, 72, 79, 82
  • peace, pacifism, pacifist(s), 8–9, 30, 58, 102
  • Peckover, Algerina, 102
  • Peckover, Hannah Priscilla, 102
  • Poland, 33, 56
  • Kraków, 2, 14, 22, 41, 43, 56–7, 59, 65, 69, 71, 75, 77, 80
  • Łódź, 33
  • Warsaw, 5, 9, 11, 20, 25, 44, 50, 80
  • profession(s), professional backgrounds, 27, 31, 34, 48, 51, 70–2, 75, 77
  • Red Cross, 58, 68, 77
  • religion
  • Anglicanism, 88, 91, 101
  • Baháʼí Faith, 66
  • Calvinism, 100
  • Catholicism, 91, 100, 103, 105
  • Christianity, 10, 30, 93, 97–100, 103, 108, 128
  • Episcopalianism, 88, 95
  • Interfaith, 14, 88, 100, 103, 113
  • Judaism, 1, 88, 90, 98–100, 105
  • Orthodoxy, 23
  • Presbyterianism, 12, 22, 87, 91, 101
  • Protestantism, 68, 73, 100, 103, 105, 108
  • Quakerism, 88, 102
  • Remonstrantism, 103
  • religious dissemination, 5, 54, 91, 94, 100
  • Revuo, La, 49, 62, 78, 85, 90–2, 105, 108
  • Rust, John Cyprian, 91–4, 96, 98, 101, 104, 106, 109, 122–3
  • Ruslanda Esperantisto, 32, 39
  • Russia, Soviet Union, 1, 8, 16, 38, 44, 89, 109, 131, 133
  • Odessa, 26
  • St Petersburg, 26
  • Salokannel, Hugo, 28–30, 32, 35, 39, 122
  • Schleyer, Johann Martin, 91, 106, 122
  • science, scientific, 15, 38, 80, 86, 104, 120, 124, 127, 135
  • Scotland
  • Aberdeen, 42, 45, 54–5, 57, 73
  • Angus, 57
  • Arbroath, 13, 42, 54, 57
  • Ayr, 1
  • Burntisland, 55
  • Cowdenbeath, 55
  • Crieff, 57
  • Cupar, 57
  • Dunfermline, 41
  • Edinburgh, 13, 48, 56–60, 70, 73, 87, 93–4, 102, 116
  • Forfar, 57
  • Fossoway, 48
  • Gartmore, 48
  • Glasgow, 45, 53–4, 57–8
  • Inverness, 57
  • Kilmarnock, 42
  • Leith, 53, 71
  • Linlithgow, 13, 42, 58
  • Montrose, 13, 41–2, 54, 56
  • Oban, 57
  • Perth, 41–2, 48, 52–5, 58, 65–9, 75, 115
  • St Andrews, 54, 67, 81
  • Stirling, 58
  • Stow, 67
  • Scottish Esperanto Federation, 11, 13, 22, 30, 41, 43, 49, 56–9, 69, 93
  • Sermon on the Mount, 33, 95
  • shipbuilding industry, 3, 45
  • Skłodowska-Curie, Marie, 66, 79–80
  • Spain, 9, 33, 44
  • Barcelona, 11, 79
  • standardisation (standardise etc.), 4–5, 19, 35, 115
  • suffrage, 46, 67, 73, 79
  • Šupichová, Julie, 54, 77
  • Sweden, 33, 74, 112
  • Göteborg, 33–4
  • Uppsala, 26
  • Switzerland
  • Geneva, 35, 44, 58, 92, 113
  • Tanzania
  • Arusha, 117
  • temperance movement, 43, 46–7
  • theatre performance, stage, 59, 67, 70, 77–8, 113
  • Performances, 51, 53, 58, 71, 81
  • totalitarianism, 9, 116
  • translations, 8, 47–8, 67, 88, 91, 94, 97–104
  • Heather Beveridge’s, 80
  • John Beveridge’s, 9, 30, 33, 58, 87, 93, 95
  • Zamenhof’s, 78, 87, 89–90, 96, 99
  • Tutmonda Esperanta Kuracista Asocio (Worldwide Esperanto Medical Association, TEKA), 80
  • UNESCO, 116
  • United Nations, UN, 14
  • United States of America, US, 3, 73, 79
  • Chicago, 12, 43, 115
  • Washington D.C, 78–9
  • Universal Congress of Esperanto, 2, 13–14, 22, 35, 41–2, 46, 49–50, 52, 54, 56, 59–60, 65, 67, 69–71, 75, 77–80, 82, 90–4, 102, 104, 113, 116–17
  • Universal Exhibitions, 4, 6, 14, 21, 115
  • Universala Esperanto-Asocio (World Esperanto Association, UEA), 35, 58, 116
  • vegetarianism, vegetarian, 27, 30
  • vocabulary development, 8, 14, 88, 101, 103
  • whaling (industry), 45
  • women’s movements, 80
  • International Council of Women (ICW), 73
  • National Union of Women Workers (NUWW), 73
  • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 73
  • Women’s Liberal Federation, 46
  • Women’s Local Peace Association, 102
  • World Missionary Conference, 94–5
  • World Wars
  • First World War, 54, 60, 101, 115–17
  • Second World War, 116
  • worldliness, 21, 32–3, 36, 112
  • Zamenhof
  • Lidia Zamenhof, 9
  • Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, 1, 5–6

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