Introduction Part I: The origins of conflict

The question of origins

Religions and language

A multilingual world

Ideologists of superiority Part II: The battlefield

Lingua francas and vernaculars

The family as a battlefield

Markets and languages

Lingua francas

The death of languages Part III: Among the administrators

Language policy and planning

First approach

Case Studies: The management of multilingualism

Case sudies: language planning and nationalism

Case Study: The language struggle of the Jivaro of Ecuador

The war of writing

The war of words

Trench warfare

The Case of French

The pacifist illusion and esperanto.