Is linguistic revival beneficiary to the plight of newly emerging, peripheral or even `threatened' cultures? Or is it a smokescreen that hides the vestiges of nationalist ideologies, which ultimately create a hegemonic relationship? This book takes a critical look at three revival exercises of exemplary historical and geopolitical value, and argues that a critical, negative look at revival movements is necessary. The cases of Catalan, Kazakh and Mongolian show that it is not through linguistic revival but through economic development that the peoples in question achieve competitiveness,...