How English Became the Global Language

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Springer, Mar 20, 2013 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 205 pages
In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions.
 

Contents

Disciplines Perspectives Debates and Overview
1
Chapter 2 The Language of the British Isles
27
Chapter 3 The Language of North America
48
Chapter 4 English in Imperial Asia and Africa
75
Chapter 5 Cultural Worlds
109
Chapter 6 Tipping Points
136
Notes
161
Bibliography
181
Index
197
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David Northrup was Professor of History at Boston College for four decades and has published widely in African, Atlantic, and world history. He is the co-author of The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (2010); author of Africa's Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850, Third Edition (2013), The Atlantic Slave Trade, Third Edition (2011), and Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965 (2007); and a contributor to the Oxford Handbook on the Atlantic World, c. 1450-1820 (2009) and the Oxford History of the British Empire (1988, 2004).