Empires of the Word

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Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities toget

Empires of the Word

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The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together and ma

Ad Infinitum

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The Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West for more than two millennia. It has been the foundation of our education, and h

Empires of the Plain

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"Well-told story of a life dedicated to scholarship, with great adventures and derring-do an unexpected bonus." - Kirkus Reviews From 1827 Henry Rawlinson, fear

The Last Lingua Franca

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Examines the rise and fall of English as the most widely spoken language in human history and discusses what language will overtake its dominance as English-spe