An Englishman Looks at the World

An Englishman Looks at the World
Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An Englishman Looks at the World" (Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters) by H. G. Wells. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Look Inside Our World

Look Inside Our World
Author: Emily Bone
Publisher: Usborne Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09-22
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781409563945

Take a trip around the world in this fascinating book. Find out what the Earth is made of, who lives in steamy rainforests, how rivers flow into the sea, and much more.

The World Book Encyclopedia

The World Book Encyclopedia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2002
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

English in the World

English in the World
Author: Philip Seargeant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136445684

English in the World: History, Diversity, Change examines the English language as it has developed through history and is used across the globe today. The first half of the book outlines the history of the language from its fifth-century roots through its development as a national, a colonial, and now a global language. In the second half, the focus shifts to the diversity of the language today. The book explores varieties of English across the English-speaking world, as well as English-related varieties such as pidgins and creoles. It also examines complex processes of variation, hybridity and change in English, and in the shifting styles of individual speakers. Throughout, the focus is on the international nature of English and its use alongside other languages in a diverse range of communities. Drawing on the latest research and The Open University’s wide experience of writing accessible and innovative texts, this book: explains basic concepts and assumes no previous study of English or linguistics contains a range of source material and commissioned readings to supplement chapters includes contributions from leading experts in their fields including Joan Beal, Suresh Canagarajah, David Crystal, Jonathan Hope, Kay McCormick, Miriam Meyerhoff, Rajend Mesthrie, Robert Podesva and Jennifer Smith has a truly international scope, encompassing examples and case studies from the UK and North America, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Asia, and Africa is illustrated in full colour to bring the fascinating study of the English language alive includes a comprehensive index as well as useful appendices showing the historical timeline of English and a brief introduction to the description of linguistic features English in the World: History, Diversity, Change is essential reading for all students of English language studies.

Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World

Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
Author: Alison Games
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674573819

England's seventeenth-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by migration. The quickening pace of this essential migration is captured in the London port register of 1635, the largest extant port register for any single year in the colonial period and unique in its record of migration to America and to the European continent. Alison Games analyzes the 7,500 people who traveled from London in that year, recreating individual careers, exploring colonial societies at a time of emerging viability, and delineating a world sustained and defined by migration. The colonial travelers were bound for the major regions of English settlement -- New England, the Chesapeake, the West Indies, and Bermuda -- and included ministers, governors, soldiers, planters, merchants, and members of some major colonial dynasties -- Winthrops, Saltonstalls, and Eliots. Many of these passengers were indentured servants. Games shows that however much they tried, the travelers from London were unable to recreate England in their overseas outposts. They dwelled in chaotic, precarious, and hybrid societies where New World exigencies overpowered the force of custom. Patterns of repeat and return migration cemented these inchoate colonial outposts into a larger Atlantic community. Together, the migrants' stories offer a new social history of the seventeenth century. For the origins and integration of the English Atlantic world, Games illustrates the primary importance of the first half of the seventeenth century.

Globish: How English Became the World's Language

Globish: How English Became the World's Language
Author: Robert McCrum
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-05-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393339777

Discusses how Anglo-American has become the language of the world, and describes the changes that English has brought to far-away cultures in distant places.

Forget English!

Forget English!
Author: Aamir R. Mufti
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0674915429

World literature advocates have promised to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of national literary traditions. Aamir Mufti scrutinizes these claims and critiques the continuing dominance of English as both a literary language and the undisputed cultural system of global capitalism.

Cambridge English for the World 4 Student's Book

Cambridge English for the World 4 Student's Book
Author: Andrew Littlejohn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1998-11-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521568159

Cambridge English for the World offers an exciting new approach to English for students from eleven to sixteen. Through the variety of tasks, the rich content and the superb visual material, learners will learn English naturally and in ways which will generate enthusiasm and motivation.