文档介绍：FOREWORD
TOTHE PAST
FOREWORD
TO THEPAST
A CulturalHistory ofthe Baltic People
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CentralEuropean Universit Pressy
Firstpublished inHungarian asOCI't! byOsiris,
Budapest,1997
Englishedition published in1999 by
CentralEuropean University Press
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TranslatedbySzilvia R&iey and Michael Webb
@ 1997by Endre Bojtar
Englishtranslation@ 1999by Szilvia and RedeyMichael Webb
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CONTENTS
FOREWORDTO THE ENGLISH EDITION ;,
ABBREVIATIONS.. ........ ..................... ,;
LISTOF MAPS AND FIGURES ...... ........ ..... xiii
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER'
THECONCEPT OF BALTIC STUDIES . J
CHAPTER2
THEORIGINS AND MEANING OF THE TERM'BALTIC' ... 6
CHAPTERJ
ENVIRONMENT........... . 14
CHAPTER(
AMBERAND THE AMBER ROUTE. . .......23
PARTTWO
THEBALTIC TRIBES AND PEOPLES37
CHAPTERL
THEINDO-EUROPEAN URHEJMAT AND PROTO·LANGUAGE. 39
ifficultiesin writing about prehistory ... .. .............. ..........39
ology. .. . . . . .. .41
anthropology .. . . .. . . . . . .. . .. .. 43
: history. 47
Kurgan theory ( . "
Asiatic Urheimal hypotheses 6J
treeand diffusionism ...... .. . ........... 66
CHAPTER2
THEBALTIC URHE/MAT AND PROTO·LAN GUAGE... 70
question ofBalto·Slavic unity . ..