Obsolete old words from seventeenth-century English villages reflect the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, bizarre foods, magic, horses,

Tim Machan explores the nature of English present and past, and its role in shaping the identity of those who speak it. He pursues his object through episodes i

The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change

This novel study of political culture in Enlightenment Europe analyses print, public opinion and the transnational dissemination of texts.

It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Anna Wierzbicka, the distinguished linguist known for her theories of s