Language and Culture in the Growth of Imperialism (original) (raw)

It studies the history of global aggression and expansion in the Greek, Roman, Islamic, British, Russian, and American empires. It presents imperialism as a cultural phenomenon rather than merely a military and economic expansion. Imperialism is the natural result for a young and vibrant culture, which emerged from a hybrid of languages. It could be a culture that grew in a multi-lingual environment (Greek, Roman, and English), an established culture revitalized by injection of a new ideology (Islamic and Russian), or a language uprooted from its sub-verbal soil and transplanted into a new cultural mosaic (America). These hybrid giants developed a brand new identity and vision of the world, as well as an inflated sense of self, and a desperate need for gratification and glorification. On the other side of this fragile ego is an exaggerated fear, which became the engine of war.

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