Folio Society Published Works Number 2224
Ostler, Nicholas - Empires of the Word
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Ostler, Nicholas - Empires of the Word (Published in by The Folio Society in 2010. Bound in cloth, blocked with hand-lettering by Stephen Raw. Set in Ehrhardt. Approx. 560 pages; frontispiece and 24 pages of colour and black & white plates. Size: 10" × 6.75". Introduced by David Crystal. When asked in 1898 to name a defining factor in recent history, the German chancellor Bismarck replied, 'North America speaks English.' To linguist Nicholas Ostler, that anecdote reveals how 'far more than princes, states or economies, it is language-communities who are the real players in world history'. In this engrossing and original narrative, Ostler gives us five millennia of world history as seen through the 'empires of the word'. )
