A “monumental” account of the rise and fall of languages, with “many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes, and charming linguistic oddities” (Chi

This book seeks to discover what the Romans themselves thought about their empire by examining the changing meaning of key terms.

The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrate

This timely book takes a critical look at the teaching of English, showing how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools ac

The debate about the Empire dealt in idealism and morality, and both sides employed the language of feeling, and frequently argued their case in dramatic terms.