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BL
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| Record Number
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105957
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b63506
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| Main Entry
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Ehret, Christopher.
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| Title & Author
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History and the testimony of language /\ Christopher Ehret.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, c2011.
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| Series Statement
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The California world history library ;; 16
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xii, 274 p. :: ill., map ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780520262041 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0520262042 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780520262058 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0520262050 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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History-- Methodology.
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Language and history.
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Social history.
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Africa, History.
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| Dewey Classification
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907.2
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| LC Classification
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D16.135.E57 2011
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