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Myth and history : ethnicity and politics in the first millennium British Isles /

Our recent understanding of British history has been slowly unravelling thanks to new techniques such as DNA analysis, new archaeological data and reassessment of the literary evidence. There are considerable problems in understanding the early history of Britain; sources for the centuries from the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yeates, Stephen James, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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