Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language

by Robert McCrum

Book Overview

It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. Equally unlikely, a colony of that island nation, across the Atlantic, grows into the military and cultural colossus of the twentieth century. How? By the sword, of course; by trade and industrial ingenuity; but principally, and most surprisingly, by the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393062554
• ISBN13: 9780393062557
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.3"