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Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

PREFACE

PROLOGUE: A CLASH OF LANGUAGES

PART I THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE HISTORY

1 Themistocles’ Carpet

2 What It Takes to Be a World Language; or, You Never Can Tell

PART II LANGUAGES BY LAND

3 The Desert Blooms: Language Innovation in the Middle East

4 Triumphs of Fertility: Egyptian and Chinese

5 Charming Like a Creeper: The Cultured Career of Sanskrit

6 Three Thousand Years of Solipsism: The Adventures of Greek

7 Contesting Europe: Celt, Roman, German and Slav

8 The First Death of Latin

PART III LANGUAGES BY SEA

9 The Second Death of Latin

10 Usurpers of Greatness: Spanish in the New World

11 In the Train of Empire: Europe’s Languages Abroad

12 Microcosm or Distorting Mirror? The Career of English

Part IV Languages Today and Tomorrow

13 The Current Top Twenty

14 Looking Ahead

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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