Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

Empires of the Mind The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present

Robert Gildea

Arabs

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

The Oxford Illustrated History of the World

Linguistics

Geoffrey K. Pullum

English - One Tongue, Many Voices

Jan Svartvik

Lingo

Gaston Dorren

The Art Of Language Invention

David J. Peterson

A History of the English Language

Elly (Arizona State University) Gelderen

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

Robert Tignor

The Oxford history of English

Lynda Mugglestone

The Story of English in 100 Words

David Crystal

Empire: How Britain made the Modern World

Niall Ferguson

Languages of the world - an introduction

Asya Pereltsvaig

Sociolinguistic Typology

Peter <plass>

A little book of language

David Crystal

How Language Works

David Crystal

The History of the Ancient World

Susan Wise Bauer

The Story of Writing

Andrew Robinson

The Language Instinct

Steven Pinker

Language in the British Isles

David Britain

Empires of the Word A Language History of the World

Nicholas Ostler

Unfolding of Language

Guy Deutscher

The Origins and Development of the English Language

John Algeo

Empire how Britain made the modern world

Niall Ferguson

Language and Identity

John E.

Empire

Stephen Howe

The adventure of English

Melvyn Bragg

World Englishes

Gunnel Melchers

History of reading in the west

Speak A Short History of Languages

Tore Janson

The History of linguistics in the Nordic countries

Understanding language change

April M.

English as a global language

David Crystal

Empire Writing

Elleke Boehmer

The Search for the Perfect Language

Umberto Eco

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language

David Crystal

A History of Civilizations

Fernand Braudel

In Search of the Indo-Europeans

J. P. Mallory

The Languages of China

S. Robert