Globish How English Became the World's Language

Name: Globish How English Became the World's Language
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ISBN: 9780393339772

ISBN-10: 0393339777

ISBN-13: 9780393339772

Edition: 2011

Authors: Robert McCrum

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 331
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Prologue: 'Crazy English'



Founders



In the Beginning: Four Invasions and a Cultural Revolution



Defeat into Victory: The DNA of Self-Expression



'Lighte Englisshe': Medieval Mass Communications



Eating Paper, Drinking Ink: Shakespeare & Co.



Pioneers



'A Whole Country of English': Re-inventing Freedom and Originality



'Common Hopes and Common Dreams': Lighting Out for the Territory



'The Audacity of Hope': From Slavery to Redemption



Popularisers



Rule, Britannia!: How England Became British



East, in a Western Voice: The People's Empire



'At the Top of the World': The Imperial Swan Song



Modernisers



'A Willingness of the Heart': The American Century I



'The Unity of the English-Speaking Peoples': The American Century II



'The World At Your Fingertips': From Google to Globish, 1989-2009



Globalisers



One World, One Dream: 'Conquer English to Make China Strong'



'Virtually Running America': India, the Far East and Beyond


Epilogue: 'A Thoroughfare for All Thoughts'


Notes


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index