Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-402) and index
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Whose history?; Structuralism oppressed?; One linguistics or two?; The defence of cultural diversity; 'The struggle for freedom in research'; Reading the journals; Interpretative pitfalls; Academic politics; The purge in the universities; Gleichschaltung and cultural policy; Karl Vossler; Julius Schwietering; Hennig Brinkmann scholar spy; Adolf Bach; Academics in the totalitarian state; Etymology as collective therapy: Jost Trier's leap of faith; From structuralist to fascist?; The linguist in the vanguard of the mother-tongue
This book is an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and the history of modern linguistics
