Dictionary Of English Down The Ages

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 316 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and light age marks on the inside page present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Throughout history, events great and small have left their mark on the way we speak. Columbus discovery of America introduced to Europe new foodstuffs such as chilli and chocolate - and the words that described them. The Normans gave us the feudal system and curfews, while the flourishing of Dutch art in the seventeenth century introduced easels, etchings and landscapes. Before the 1970s green was a colour with connotations of naivety rather than ecology and until 1990 webs were mostly attached to spiders. Starting from 1066 and working through to the modern day boom in techno-speak, Dictionary of English Down the Ages links hundreds of words with the historical upheavals and minor social changes which gave them life.

ISBN: 9781856266031