In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy rece

Discusses how Anglo-American has become the language of the world, and describes the changes that English has brought to far-away cultures in distant places.

Discover how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken l

In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they se

The English language is a subject of fascination for many people and is frequently the subject of lively debate in the media. In this book, Simon Horobin consid