The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryHarvard University Press, 1958 - 465 pagine Through the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... race that can derive its physical inheritance from a prehistoric or early historic pure race . However , it can of course happen , though instances are rare enough , that some group of racially mixed per- sons finds itself , because of ...
... race that can derive its physical inheritance from a prehistoric or early historic pure race . However , it can of course happen , though instances are rare enough , that some group of racially mixed per- sons finds itself , because of ...
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... race which is still distinguished in many parts of Europe . " 20 The only racial feature which Cro Magnon men and modern Europeans can provedly be said to have in common is their humanness . But to clinch the argument there is elsewhere ...
... race which is still distinguished in many parts of Europe . " 20 The only racial feature which Cro Magnon men and modern Europeans can provedly be said to have in common is their humanness . But to clinch the argument there is elsewhere ...
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... race , are native to central and western Europe . . . . Nor- dic race and ethnic and linguistic Indo - Europeanness are funda- mentally identical . ” 8 " The Indo - European family of nations owes its origin to the enterprising ...
... race , are native to central and western Europe . . . . Nor- dic race and ethnic and linguistic Indo - Europeanness are funda- mentally identical . ” 8 " The Indo - European family of nations owes its origin to the enterprising ...
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