The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryThrough the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them. But the result is always a mixture. The linguistic evolution of Italy parallels this development, and presented as part of the cultural history it beomes a colorful and exciting tale.--dust jacket. |
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This human failure appears to be proven by the fact that within recent times human effort , and not a new climate , has again improved the yield of the land in many places which had lain desolate and barren since antiquity , for example ...
This human failure appears to be proven by the fact that within recent times human effort , and not a new climate , has again improved the yield of the land in many places which had lain desolate and barren since antiquity , for example ...
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28 Each culture is communicable to all human beings . But an intransigent stand on cultural spread which asserts that all cultural change is due to migrations of cultures and their bearers 29 is as unfortunate as the opposite ...
28 Each culture is communicable to all human beings . But an intransigent stand on cultural spread which asserts that all cultural change is due to migrations of cultures and their bearers 29 is as unfortunate as the opposite ...
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... Stone Ages Anthropologists believe they have discovered the most ancient evidence of humans in Italy in a cave called Grotta ... accounting for 98 per cent of human existence on earth , made practically no material progress at all .
... Stone Ages Anthropologists believe they have discovered the most ancient evidence of humans in Italy in a cave called Grotta ... accounting for 98 per cent of human existence on earth , made practically no material progress at all .
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| Titolo | The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and History |
| Autore | Ernst Pulgram |
| Edizione | illustrata, ristampa, riveduta |
| Editore | Harvard University Press, 1958 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 31 mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0837124387, 9780837124384 |
| Lunghezza | 465 pagine |
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