The fall of the Roman Empire : a new history of Rome and the Barbarians / Peter Heather
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : Oxford University Press, 2006وصف:xvi, 572 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- DG311 .H43 2006
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DG311 .H43 2006 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000021027 |
Originally published: Macmillan, 2005
Introduction -- Pax Romana. Romans -- Barbarians -- The limits of empire -- Crisis. War on the Danube -- The City of God -- Out of Africa -- Attila the Hun -- Fall of empires. The fall of the Hunnic Empire -- End of empire -- The fall of Rome
"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." "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 enduring limitations to show how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled it apart." "Peter Heather convincingly argues that the Roman Empire was not on the brink of social or moral collapse. What brought it to an end were the barbarians."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-551) and index