| Description |
1 online resource (1014 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE PAX ROMANA; 1. ROMANS; 2. BARBARIANS; 3. THE LIMITS OF EMPIRE; PART TWO CRISIS; 4. WAR ON THE DANUBE; 5. THE CITY OF GOD; 6. OUT OF AFRICA; 7. ATTILA THE HUN; PART THREE FALL OF EMPIRES; 8. THE FALL OF THE HUNNIC EMPIRE; 9. END OF EMPIRE; 10. THE FALL OF ROME; DRAMATIS PERSONAE; TIMELINE; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Rome generated its own nemesis. Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors it called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling the Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. Heather is a leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians. In The Fall of the Roman Empire, he explores the extraordinary success story that was the Roman Empire and uses a new understanding of its continued strength and endu |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Regions & Countries - Europe.
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History & Archaeology.
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Italy.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115160
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Rome -- History -- Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115148
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781743033159 |
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174303315X |
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