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Index
Cover
ALSO BY ROBERT McCRUM
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
CONTENTS
Prologue: ‘Crazy English’
PART ONE FOUNDERS
1. In the Beginning: Four Invasions and a Cultural Revolution
2. Defeat into Victory: The DNA of Self-Expression
3. ‘Lighte Englisshe’: Medieval Mass Communications
4. Eating Paper, Drinking Ink: Shakespeare & Co.
PART TWO PIONEERS
5. ‘A Whole Country of English’: Re-inventing Freedom and Originality
6. ‘Common Hopes and Common Dreams’: Lighting Out for the Territory
7. ‘The Audacity of Hope’: From Slavery to Redemption
PART THREE POPULARISERS
8. Rule, Britannia!: How England Became British
9. East, in a Western Voice: The People’s Empire
10. ‘At the Top of the World’: The Imperial Swan Song
PART FOUR MODERNISERS
11. ‘A Willingness of the Heart’: The American Century I
12. ‘The Unity of the English-Speaking Peoples’: The American Century II
13. ‘The World At Your Fingertips’: From Google to Globish, 1989–2009
PART FIVE GLOBALISERS
14. One World, One Dream: ‘Conquer English to Make China Strong’
15. ‘Virtually Running America’: India, the Far East and Beyond
Epilogue: ‘A Thoroughfare for All Thoughts’
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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