n Europe after 1945 (p. 185), the failure to mention either the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities of the Council of Europe or the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is unpardonable. It leaves the reader with the impression that the author either is not familiar with the topic he is writing about or finished this piece of scholarship in an all too great haste. The book also went from one spelling mistake to the next which of course takes the readers train of thought off of the topic and on to each individual misspelled word.In conclusion Panayi's book is not an essential contribution to the field, he leaves the reader unfulfilled and utterly confused....
