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“He not only peppers his essays with varied concepts but throws in all kinds of statistics, like how many people were speaking English at one point in the past, compared to centuries later when London was the hub of a massive empire. He’s trying to make sense of a world that was rapidly changing in that period as the great empires divided up so much of the globe.” Read more...
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