| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The California world history library ; 16
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California world history library ; 16.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Methods and myths -- Writing history from linguistic evidence -- Historical inference from transformations in the vocabularies of culture -- Historical inference from word borrowing -- Linguistic dating -- History in the Sahara : society and economy in the early Holocene -- Social transformation in the Horn of Africa, 500 BCE to 500 CE -- Recovering the history of extinct societies : a case study from East Africa -- Cultural diffusion in the Atlantic age : American crops in Eastern Africa. |
| Summary |
This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applying language evidence in historical studies. He demonstrates how these methods allow us not only to recover the histories of time periods and places poorly served by written documentation, but also to enrich our understanding of well-documented regions and eras. A leading historian as well as historical linguist of Africa, Ehret provides in-depth examples from the language phyla of Africa, arguing that his comprehensive treatment can be applied by. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
History -- Methodology.
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History -- Methodology. |
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Language and history.
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Language and history. |
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Social history.
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Social history. |
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Africa -- History.
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Africa. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ehret, Christopher. History and the testimony of language. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520262041 (DLC) 2010001040 (OCoLC)498113283 |
| ISBN |
9780520947597 (electronic book) |
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0520947592 (electronic book) |
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9780520262041 |
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0520262042 |
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9780520262058 |
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0520262050 |
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