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Original Hardcover. Publisher: Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Uppsala universitet | Utg. 2010 | Original Hardcover | 622 | This book is brand new. | Series: Studies in Global Archaeology | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Cities are places of ethnic and linguistic diversity, and thus of language contact. This isillustrated by the oasis city-states along the Silk Roads in Central Asia that developed intocosmopolitan centres of an amazing religious, ethnic and linguistic diversity during thefirst millennium AD. The growing trade on the Silk Roads, missionary activities, shiftingpolitical, religious and military domination, and last but not least climatic changes ledto increasing immigration into the cities, creating a multilayered linguistic ecologicalsystem of interacting spoken and written codes. A flourishing written culture developed;and the rich activity of urban cross-cultural exchange is not only reflected in art andarchitecture, but also in a vast variety… Leer más

Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala Universitet. Very Good+. 2010. Hardcover. 9150621750 . Large format hardcover, issued without a dustjacket, book has a trace of dust-tanning to the outer page-edge which is inconsequential, the binding is clean, tight and attractive and the contents are fine, there is also an inscription and signature on the title page which we cannot identify, the inscription reads "Thanks for a great visit!" This volume originates in an Idea Development grant from Mistra (Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research) in 2008. Discussions in the project have focused on the need to rethink our approach to the understanding of urbanism, illustrated throughout ; 618 pages .

Uppsala Universitet. 2010. Hard cover. Fine.. 618 p. Includes: maps, bibliography.