Robert McCrum - Globish

Jun 9 2010 7:00 pm
Jun 9 2010 8:00 pm
The Associate Editor of The Observer follows his Story of English with this history of the language’s global dominance. From British colonialism to American hegemony, in politics and in literature, English has left its stamp on the tongues it came into contact with, even as it appropriated from them. 

Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language (Hardcover)

By Robert McCrum
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780393062557
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 5/2010
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