Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Saints, nobility, and other heroes. Colonial place-naming as part of the European linguistic heritage -- "The making of Greenland" - Early European place names in Kalaallit Nunaat -- Colonial place-names in Italian East Africa (AOI) (with additional data from Tripoli). The linguistic heritage of colonial practice -- Linguistic missionary heritage. Capuchin missionary Father Laurentius and his unpublished German-Chuukese dictionary -- Positioning by naming: Constructing group affiliation in a colonial setting -- Third-hand colonial linguistics: Adolphe Dietrich's comparative study of Indian Ocean Creoles -- Spanish-Guarani diglossia in colonial Paraguay: A language undertaking -- Construction of (transcontinental) railways as a means of colonization. A corpus-based analysis on the German colonial discourse in postcolonial perspective -- The Raj English in historical lexicography -- Anglo-Norman: Language contact and obsolescence -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Toponyms