books.google.com - This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language encompasses three centuries of immense cultural change, from Caxton in the late Middle Ages to the American Declaration of Independence and the beginnings of Romanticism. During this period, Middle English became Early Modern English and then...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Cambridge_History_of_the_English_Lan.html?id=CCvMbntWth8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Cambridge History of the English Language